Snowflakes fall with a fascinating variety of shapes and patterns -- including stellar dendrites, hollow columns, triangular crystals, and many more. Click here to see the common crystals as well as some exotic varieties.

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> Snowflake photos
> Guide to snowflakes
> A snowflake primer
> Snowflake fun facts
> The greatest snow on earth
> No two alike?
> Use these photos?

I grow my own snow crystals in the snowflake lab, where I can create my own designs, including some you will not find in nature. Click here to see how this is done.

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> Snowflake videos
> Freezer snowflakes
> Electric ice needles
> POP crystals
> Snowflake on a Stick

Click on this image to watch snow crystals as they grow in snowflake lab. It takes about 15-60 minutes to grow a large snowflake, and this process is compressed to around 10-30 seconds using time-lapse photography

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> Designer Snowflakes
> "Identical-Twin" snowflakes
> Electric ice needles
> Fishbone dendrites
> Guide to snowflakes
> A snowflake primer

How are snow crystals made, and why do they have the shapes they do? Why are they all so different, and how come the six branches grow so similarly?  Click here to learn how all this works.

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> A Snowflake Primer
> The morphology diagram
> Snow Crystal Faceting
> Snow Crystal Branching
> Snow Crystal Sharpening
> Snowflake Fun Facts
> Myths & nonsense

Ice and water are all around us, and they are fascinating to learn about. You too can grow your own snowflakes, make some snowflake fossils, or investigte the mysterious ice spikes. Click here to find out how..

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> Proper paper snowflakes 
> Preserve a snowflake
> Ice spikes
> Ice crystal halos
> Snowflake photography