A grain of sand

soldevilla · Post by **soldevilla** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:04 pm

More than 10 years ago a friend gave me a small amount of sand (!) and told me that I observe the sand under a microscope. Wonderful! what looked like sand was in fact small fossils!
Now I've recovered from that sample, and I shot a "grain of sand. " The size is about 0.5 mm

twebster · Post by **twebster** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 4:38 pm

This is quite a striking microfossil. I love the color of the microfossil and I also like the foreground reflection and the treatment of the background. This is a fine image.

Mitch640 · Post by **Mitch640** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:46 pm

Very interesting, and nice image.

Pau · Post by **Pau** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:37 am

Very nice!
I think this is a Foraminifera sell, not sure if it's a fossil or a living specie, those shelled protozoarians are very common today and an important component in a lot of marine beach sands and other sediments.

Sands under the microscope are often very interesting and surprising beautiful.

Slinkytreekreeper · Post by **Slinkytreekreeper** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 1:01 pm

How did you light this? Purple gel and black tile perhaps?

Striking image, do the grains all look the same?

jgknight · Post by **jgknight** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:14 pm

Lovely image and nice lighting too.
Objects look amazing when blow up large so we can see the detail.

dmillard · Post by **dmillard** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:45 am

A magical image - very nice!

David

soldevilla · Post by **soldevilla** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:05 pm

Slinkytreekreeper wrote:How did you light this? Purple gel and black tile perhaps?

Striking image, do the grains all look the same?

not, obviously

at this size, the background is photoshop... The background is a little trick to fool the eye and the feeling of size.