When Bethany and I looked out the window near 1:30 one morning and saw snow coming down, I thought it was time to take a photo.
Snow
Mailbox, April 2025
110 Things to See With a Telescope. Thundersnows. Read the April letters to the editor.
Pictures & Poems, April 2025
Trails and Tails Contest First Place Art Winner + honorable mention art and writing
Where My Macro Photography Setup Met With Snowflakes—Part 2
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Photo © Kevin Shank. No sooner had the February magazine gone to the printer than we had snow again, probably that very night. One of my goals after last...
Focus Illustrated, February 2025
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Photo © Steven Russell Smith As I became aware of what Kevin was preparing to do when it snowed, I also got inspired to try something new with my...
Favorite Focus, February 2025
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Where My Macro Photography Setup Met With Snowflakes
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive For a long time now, several years actually, I’ve been wishing to try a new approach to photographing snowflakes. Just how I’ve wished to try this...
Study Guide Puzzles, February 2025
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Inside a Snow Globe
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Snowflakes hissed into the dark water as we launched our kayaks on the Niangua River. The gloomy clouds made it feel like dusk instead of one o’clock in...
Treasures of the Snow
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Snowflake design. Photo © Don Komarechka. As I write, I am also looking out the window and seeing lazy snowflakes silently swirling, floating, twirling...
Focus Illustrated, January 2025
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Editor’s Note: After Priscilla Wenger’s lesson came out in March 2011, Ezra Morley used her lesson as a springboard. This is a reprint of his story from...
Treasures of the Snow: How I Learned to Photograph Them
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Editor’s Note: With the focus on snowflakes in this issue, I decided to go back Memory Lane and pick up the first time we wrote about snowflake...
End of the Trail, January 2025: Snowflake
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Split crystal dendrite. Photo © Don Komarechka.This snowflake has been a favorite ever since I first saw it in Don Komarechka’s book, Sky Crystals. I am...
Creation Close-ups, January 2025
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Winter Trails
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Snowshoe hare in winter. Photo by Denali National Park and Preserve|CC-BY-2.0, detail. “I love fall, but I dread to think what is coming afterwards,” the...