Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow is a famous novel. But Wilson Bentley also had a feeling for snow and was the pioneer of snowflake photography, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bentley
A more recent photographer of snow crystals is Kenneth Libbrech, see
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16170-snowflakes/5
These images are all wonderful.
Looking at snowflakes many have asked how each of the six arms of the snowflake 'knows' how to keep itself in symmetry.