Snowflake and Ice Crystal Resources

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has a very large collection of Snowflake photographs.

Many of the snowflake designsin Snowflake Patterns for Children were created using these images!

Wilson Bentley, the Snowflake Man, published his "Studies among the Snow Crystals" in 1902 with links to large Snow Crystal photos from the "Studies among the Snow Crystals" 1902 publication

High Resolution Snow Crystal Photographs

Each "thumbnail" links to super, High Resolution photographs published in the "Studies among the Snow Crystals" 1902 publication.

Some of these photographs are huge and may take a long time to completely load on a dial up connection. Be patient, it's worth the wait!

Photo of Ice crystals of unusual size

This superflake crystal was 4 and 3/4 inches in diameter