Wilson Bentley

Wilson Bentley, a farmer in Jericho, Vermont, took the first photograph of a single snowflake in 1885 using a microscope fitted to a bellows camera, and kept photographing them every winter for the rest of his life, over 5,000 in all. He also recorded weather and raindrop sizes. His long series supported the idea that no two snowflakes are alike, and his collection is held by the Jericho Historical Society and the Buffalo Museum of Science.