A variety of snow crystal and snow formation photos are archived below. They are available for free use (under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA) as long as credit is given to the photographers listed for each image.

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  • Free Use Snow Crystal Photos

    Clustered rounded crystals.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    A hexagonal plate crystal fragment.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    A sectored plate crystal.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    A stellar dendrite crystal.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    A stellar dendrite crystal with plate formations.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Faceted cup-shaped crystals in the field.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Faceted cup-shaped crystals.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Free Use Snow Photos

    Sastrugi, which are eroded snow dunes, in the Barrenlands of Canada.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Hoar frost on a willow in Fairbanks, Alaska.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    A wind slab snow from arctic Alaska.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Here, hoar frost has formed on a pre-existing ice crust.

    The Brooks Range in Alaska.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    A ground blizzard in Utqiagvik, Alaska.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Lynx tracks.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Tensile strength demonstrated in snow sliding off a roof.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    An elongated barchan, which is a horn-shaped snow dune.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Trucks buried by snow pack in the Northwest Territories of Canada.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Surface hoar on early season snow in Alaska's North Slope Region.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Rime on a trail marker in the White Mountains of Alaska.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Snow deforming as it slides off of a car.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Hoar frost on a shrub near Fairbanks, Alaska

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Powder snow in Alaska's Ray Mountains.

    (photo credit: Matthew Sturm)

    Fuchsia covered by fresh snow in Seattle, Washington.

    (photo credit: Andrey Shcherbina)