Some while ago I started to put together a image library of sand scans. Basically I collected images from all my sands by using a transparent foil with a rectangle of 5 x 5 m on it and scanned the sands on a regulat flat bed scanner. The results were displayed on the first version of the Sand Atlas. Unfortunally I had to stop after collecting about 700 scans since the operation took me a lot of my free time. Lately I had to satisfy my artistic needs with some photographs of the sands stored in little vials:

Nowadays I’m using Picasa for organising some old photography folders and got by coincidence to open the sand scans library. I found this overview (random samples, size is 5 x 5 cm) and though that I may share it with you. It actually shows one core idea that most sand collectors are aware of: world diversity in its most beauty, apart from the feeling of being able to hold the whole world in only one hand.

Well, enjoy your hobby… I surely do it too…