The photographer Douglas Levere was looking for a manageable side project, one that wouldn’t conflict with his day job or require too much travel away from where he lives, in a suburb of Buffalo, New York. He settled on something that is easily accessible, and seemingly inexhaustible, in that part of the Northeast: snow.
Levere caught his subjects as they fell or swept them up with a fine paintbrush, sometimes from off the hood of his car. He put them on glass slides and brought them to his garage, the only place in his house where it was cold enough to work, and then, using a homemade device—more or less a microscope lens attached to a digital camera—he photographed them in close-up, often as many as fifty times per snowflake. Finally, he combined the many images into one sharp portrait.
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