His hobby began 13 years ago, when the photography professor at Rochester Institute of Technology first began tinkering with how to capture the fleeting beauty of individual flakes before they melted.
“I have a love-hate relationship with winter,” said Peres, who has lived in Rochester, New York, for 30 years. “I hate shoveling and cleaning my car off, but there’s no other way to photograph snowflakes if you’re not in a place where it snows.”
