Photographer Spent 2,500 Hours Capturing Stunning Photos of Snowflakes Through his camera lens, Canadian photographer Don Komarechka explores a world which cannot been seen by the naked eye. Specifically interested in nature and macro photography, images by the young artist reveal a closer look at how the universe works. His recently unveiled piece, The Snowflake , features detailed shots of over 400 snowflakes, measured and scaled to the relative size of one another. The time-intensive project took over 2,500 hours (spread out over 5 years) to complete, resulting into a single, stunning composite poster. An average of 40 replicate shots of each individual snowflake were combined in order to get each singular image. This process, known as ...