Sometimes I have to remove various objects from my sand samples because they simply don’t fit through the neck of my vials. They are mostly pebbles of different sizes but also bigger stones, pieces of wood, shells or corals. However, I’ve recently got the idea of… collecting them and stopped throwing anything away! I also took a couple of photographs for you (the real width of the frames is about 4 cm):

Shooting small objects is always exciting and funny. I had to use my macro lens and build a small photographic tent from two plastic boxes covered at the top with a semitransparent sheet (sandwich paper actually). The light was provided from the top by two regular desk lamps, the role of paper being to filter the direct light and thus smoothing the shadows.

I guess even better results could have been achieved with three sources of light (two from the sides and one from above) but I only have two lamps so… here’s the setup of my small photo laboratory.