Snowflake Photography

An eager voice emerges from within you (I hear it now, these fifty odd years since it first shook the snow-covered tree branches of myself), “How is all this to be done?” You know by now that this is no simple matter. But I would hope you take the pages to come as you would the hand of a guide, one who knows the path through the woods, even as he travels it in the dark. And know too that there will be time to reflect; for, like the astronomer who waits in patience for the clouds to clear, the snow crystal photographer also stands with his mind open to the sky, though certainly in hopes of different results. No matter. Dress to your warmest. Gather up your things. And surely, when the moment presents itself, you will most certainly be prepared.

—The Snowflake Photographer’s Field Guide