One in a billion...

I know blippers..I can hear it now...another snowflake blip so soon?!

But this one excites me because there was no set-up, no capture of the flakes, no flashlight, no tinkering to make the structure of the flakes stand out. Instead I just belly-crawled around in the snow for a while, 21mm extension tube on the 50mm lens..got it wet a few times as you have to get real close to get any kind of focus.

Other than cropping, it is completely unaltered.

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