In the beautiful valley of Savoie, France, Simon Beck creates patterned snow art to decorate the large expanse of frozen lakes and delight the local skiers — until the next snowfall.

With each layer of fresh snow, Beck walks the lakes with mathematical precision to design and redesign his incredibly intricate snow flakes and three dimensional star bursts and spirographs.

Get to know Simon Beck on his Facebook's Snow Art page.

(READ the story in Inhabitat)