In the late 1800s, Wilson Bentley captured the first successful image of a single snowflake, using a bellows camera attached to a microscope. Revisit more of our favorites here: https://on.natgeo.com/3PNp9N0 | National Geographic

You’re looking at the first-ever successful images, or “photomicrograph,” of a single snowflake—photographed in 1923 by self-educated photographer Wilson Bentley. ❄️ Bentley went through a lot of trial and error to perfect his technique of photographing snowflakes through a microscope. The result, he hoped, would highlight the beauty of nature and the uniqueness of each flake. His striking work was published in the National Geographic magazine in 1904 and 1923, highlighting the delicate beauty a