Thursday, 16 January 2014

The Secret Beauty of Sand Grains

We all enjoy the glimmering ocean waves and the cool breeze on a beach, but have we ever thought about the beauty that lies right underfoot? But a series of magnified photos may inspire you to turn your gaze to the sand, where little seen beauty lies.

Photographer, inventor, and scientist, Dr Gary Greenberg has devoted his life to revealing the secret beauty of nature. Dr. Gary Greenberg's photographs magnify grains of sand 100 to 300 times, exposing swirling microscopic shells, eroded crystals and colourful coral fragments. With the help of high-quality microscopes, he creates "spectacular landscapes of worlds beyond our everyday perception — worlds where reality is seen as abstract form and colour, motion and texture."



The grains come from diverse beaches around the world, reaching from Okinawa, Japan to Maui, Hawaii to Smith Mountain Lake, Va. Each fragment is unique in character and remarkably beautiful.















To see more of Greenberg's microphotography, including magnified images of food, flowers and the human body, visit his website.

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