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a snowflake can be made of 1 or hundreds of snow crystals.  A snow crystal can only be that....a snow crystal.

Thank you very much, Gary!  I appreciate it!!  and I agree!

absolutely!

refresh my memory??  I post so many places.... do you really think these are ice photos and not snow crystals?

we need a sarcasm font.....I am hoping....

I do that as well.

That's a great point.

It may be the most common, but takes the least amount of skill.  That's why I pride myself in bug and insect photography with only live specimens.

Yes, DON!!  Exactly!  I get that all the time with my spider pictures as well...people assuming I had to freeze them in order to get a focus stacked image.

Here is the original file, before I cropped and adjusted exposure, removing some spotting on my glass.

Here are the rest of my best snow crystals from Sunday's snowfall.  I took these with the EM1 mark ii, 36mm of kenko extension tubes, the Olympus 60mm macro lens and the Raynox 250.  I used the ...

I catch them on glass, then decide which I am photographing.  I do my best to move other ice crystals away from it before taking the picture.  My glass is well below freezing, and it's always best ...

yes, it was a deliberate setup.  My point is not the naturalness of the picture, but rather being accused that something is not what it is.  For instance, taking a picture of a fish jumping into a ...

4.5:1 magnification - snow crystal was 2mm wide open image for best resolution.  taken with EM1 mark ii, 36mm kenko extension tubes, 60mm Olympus macro lens and Raynox 250 internal focus stack of 8 ...

How many of you have had that reaction to one of your pictures you have taken? I recently posted a picture of an individual snow crystal I captured with my macro gear, and several people online ...

How many of you have had that reaction to one of your pictures you have taken? I recently posted a picture of an individual snow crystal I captured with my macro gear, and several people online ...

yes, absolutely manual focus

Helicon has three methods to use to stack.  I use the Pyramid one for things such as shells and it does well for ghosting.

I believe it was this one https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/809675-REG/Sensei_sdr4643_46_43mm_Step_Down_Ring.html

I have a 46 to 43 reducer that allows me to attach the Raynox lens directly to the front of the lens, screwing it into the threading of the reducer instead of using a clamp.  It is far more secure ...