NEW YORK, NY (AP).- Vermont farmer Wilson A.
Bentley was known as Snowflake Bentley for his pioneering 19th-century
photography of more than 5,000 jewel-like snowflakes — no two
alike. Bentley, also known as
The Snowflake Man, was fascinated with snowflakes, and his observations
and experimentation made him the first person to capture a single
snowflake with a camera. 26 of his images are for sale at
the four-day American Antiques Show presented by the American Folk Art
Museum in New York. Ten of the images are of snowflakes, which he called
snow crystals, and are priced at $4,800 each. The others show winter
scenes.