Sand under the microscope

Magnifiedsand.com is one human’s labor of love: a collection of sand samples from around the world, magnified and photographed. I can’t explain my instinctual need to collect shells, feathers, and rocks, but that same part of me gets lost in these images. There’s something mesmerizing about zooming in enough to see the diverse assortment of crushed quartz, tiny fossils, and shell fragments. Just a small, free, beautifully nerdy corner of the internet.