Gracefully manipulating handfuls of sand atop a light box, Simonova created ever-transforming images that were projected onto a screen: a bucolic village disintegrates into a war zone, a woman ...

Sand looks very different through a high-powered microscope. Photographer, biomedical researcher, and inventor Gary Greenberg started taking photos of sand grains with his own light microscope ...

Although the pictures look simple each grain of sand can take hours to photograph in a way that I am happy with. 'The beach nearest my lab is Haiku, Hawaii but my pictures show sand from all round ...