Grains of sand magnified to 250 times real size
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Who knew sand could look so damn colourful and interesting? Gary Greenberg, that’s who, whose incredible microphotography reveals each grain of sand to be a kaleidoscope of colour and texture that defies its rather bland reputation.
33 comments
Sterling Tuesday 12 July 2011
Stunning. Absolutely beautiful. To see that even such a mundane thing can be so individual and intricate surely makes the world a wonderful place!
Shapewear Wednesday 13 July 2011
These look more like corals than rocks
Bruce Salem Wednesday 13 July 2011
MS Geology Stanford, 1973. Lots of those sand grains, clasts, contain various fossils. Some look life forams in dialenetic matrix, others look like spircles from ceolenterates of various kinds. A few of mineral grains or crystals. Obviously the samples have been culled for interesting stuff, but a great deal of it is of biologic origin ultimately.
joanne Wednesday 13 July 2011
there are tiny pieces of coral and I see a diatom and microfossils too. Take a magnifying glass to the beach – you’d be amazed.
Mac Wednesday 13 July 2011
Yes, and have you ever had a piece of this crap in your eye after being on the beach? Not so wonderful then.
Juie Thursday 14 July 2011
They look like really beautiful beads for jewelry
Where can I find more of these types of awesome pics?
Zak Branson Thursday 14 July 2011
Pretty pretty good !
Darb Friday 15 July 2011
Beach sand! Desert sand looks a lot different.
Gidget198787 Friday 15 July 2011
Oh, would that they were rocks I could add to my rock collection. They are utterly beautiful.
Manela Gracià Saturday 16 July 2011
són tan fantàstiques aquestes joies de la natura que provaré d’imitar-ne alguna! Gravaré una pedra amb el disseny natural d’aquestes miniatures!
Emm Sunday 17 July 2011
Mac- you crack me up! . Obviously the photographed grains have been hand-picked. Still very attractive though!
stella Monday 18 July 2011
There’s a lot of beauty even in the smallest things.
edwin Tuesday 19 July 2011
The Creator is be glorified
nello Tuesday 19 July 2011
it looks like a living thing , i mean no sand whatsoever but fossils.
Stephanie Wednesday 20 July 2011
As Bruce Salem and nello say, biological origin. Sand isn’t as mundane as people think. It’s crazy that life can be packed into something so teeny as a “grain of sand” no? I think that’s pretty wonderful… whether it’s in your eye or not.
Darb Friday 22 July 2011
@edwin: Yup, erosion is pretty glorious!
Mr.Loto Wednesday 10 August 2011
Wow, there is a fantastic world hidden in the sand, thanks!
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thomas vesely Saturday 8 October 2011
send $ 20 for i million grains.
Jessica Saturday 8 October 2011
Oh god Julie (or is it Juie?) you crack me up! You can’t put grains of sand on a necklace honey! Dear lord, the stupidity of the average american….
Etal Ware Monday 10 October 2011
All this time I thought it was the size of the ocean that made me feel small when at the shore. I have been looking in the wrong direction for so many years. Thanks for this enlightenment and perspective.
thomas vesely Monday 10 October 2011
each grain totally unique.some taking geological epochs to form.none finished.
beyond amazing.
thank you, photographer…………
Skye Friday 25 November 2011
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
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(William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”)
Mahalo Nui Loa to Gary Greenburg for opening our eyes and hearts to the magnificent wonder of what is just below our feet!
Great ot have discovered this site, too!
Emily Thursday 15 December 2011
Wow…these photos are beautiful, my only wish is to have sand of that actual size, i swear i would have it all over the house, even better, build a house out of it!!
rt Thursday 9 February 2012
What would moon dust look like?
Glen Webber. Sunday 29 April 2012
What an awesome selection of pictures.
Truly amazing all from sand.
Really cool!
Glen.
Taja Monday 7 May 2012
WOW! Beautiful! Helps me to understand that there is beauty everywhere, even in the smallest things.
Aidy Friday 11 May 2012
Beauty in sand. The smallest things we take for granted contain the most purest forms of natural beauty on the face of the earth.
Tracey Saturday 19 May 2012
Truly amazing that even the grains of sand have characteristics that are individual to them. Another mystery revealed in God’s creation
Sanjana Saturday 9 June 2012
Really stunning and marvelous……. I love it……
Donna Monday 10 September 2012
Hi, I’m a first year geology student. First lab in mineralogy class we looked at samples of sand from around the world under a microscope. Most of the sand in the world is made of quartz. It didn’t look very interesting. It looks very much like the photographer just picked a bunch of fossils and pretty minerals out of sand and set them up to look nice.
Meganne Friday 14 September 2012
Jessica honey, use your critical thinking and reading comprehension skills and read over Juie’s post one more time, please. She said they look LIKE jewelry beads, not that they ARE jewelry beads, or that she wished she could use them AS jewelry beads. What a fool you are! My goodness, I know you will never see this, but what a fool you are anyway! For shame.
Joe Friday 14 September 2012
Thanks you Meganne, for pointing out how obnoxious and arrogant Jessica is (was). It’s funny how non-Americans are so fast to call us “stupid” when they’re always so far behind us in everything!
Paula Tuesday 18 September 2012
So glad that someone called out Jessica. People disgust me sometimes.