"The Snowflake Man"

Snow Crystal- William A. Bentley, 1902

William A. Bentley was the first person to photograph a single snow crystal, thus discovering that no two snowflakes are exactly alike. He accomplished this by attaching a microscope to a bellows camera, and in 1885 he made his startling discovery. Throughout his lifetime, Bentley would go on to photograph over 5,000 snowflakes, making certain that each snowflake photographed was completely unique.

What William A. Bentley did for the worlds of both science and photography is really great. I can only imagine that Bentley's microscopic snowflake were the predecessors to macro photography as we know it today, as well as the precursor to the modern day microscope. Bentley combines the fields of art and science in order to make scientific discovery, making beautiful photographic images all along the way.