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even a grain of sand…

…can be amazing! These images are grains of sand magnified 250 times actual size! (images by Gary Greenberg via lost at e minor)

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14 Responses

  1. THAT is SO COOL!!

  2. I LOVE this.

  3. So beautiful! Is there any move to make these into wall posters?? I could totally imagine buying a high quality print of this, framing it and putting it on the wall of my home. Really!

  4. Nancy Corderman

    Amazing and beautiful- something that was always there and we never knew until someone looked very very close!!!

  5. Holy moly. It’s like Horton Hears A Who! in real life!!
    How inexpressibly lovely.

  6. look at what we can see when we look…!

  7. How amazingly beautiful… If only we took the time for a the little things in life… Imagine what a wonderful and beautiful world would open up to us before our eyes. I wonder if we would take better care of our earth if we could look at everything like this person did with a simple grain of sand. So profound… Yet so simplistic. Thank you for sharing this absolutely beautiful piece. I hope the artist continues to do more like it. It’s absolutely breathtaking….

  8. Those are great. I do macro photography during beach walks in CA, but I can see that I haven’t been aware of what I was really looking at. It’s neat how many are the remains of sea creatures.

  9. This just made my terrible day turn around. Simply amazing. I’m a florist and I love sticks and rocks and roots…. so this just stands out loud for me. Thanks…I’m a fan.

  10. Hey there, I love this.

    I just wanted to say that I love how you are mixing it up on this site. It seems that so many home and product blogs have turned into the same ol’same ol’ and I feel like yours hasn’t!

    Thank you! Inspiring!

  11. thanks Luke! I really appreciate the support!

  12. Helen Sacco

    I love the way they glow, how marvelous. Thanks Em

  13. [...] can never tell what the reaction is going to be on a post. Recently I blogged an image of grains of sand from the ocean magnified 250 times. It somehow got picked up by someone’s tumblr who has a massive following in the UK, and that [...]

  14. this is crazy crazy cool! loved your feature over at west elm. i completely connect with your style!

    j.

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