Ephemeral beauty: 19th-century self-taught photographer Wilson Alwyn Bentley (1865–1931), a Vermont farmer, was the first person to photograph a single snow crystal in 1885. ❄️ During his life-time, he photographed over 5,000 individual snowflakes, capturing the transient ❄️ ❄️ beauty of the tiny crystals.🤗❄️ [Snowflake photographs by Wilson Bentley, winter 1902]