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Been spending a lot of time on here!
The other day I noticed this rock in our yard. I looked a bit closer, and found that it had all these little holes on it's surface. They were very small, maybe 1/20 of 1mm across. I turned it over, and saw that the rock was actually a shell, and that it looked as if the outer layer has been rubbed off revealing the internal struture of the shell itself.
I thought it'd be cool to photograph, and so I set up two lights obliquely to either side and used a 50mm lens with about 11cm extension. I found that what I thought was the internal structure was actually on top; it became apparent that what I was looking at were hundreds of thousands of tiny little homes for some tiny little sea creature. From a distance, they look organized into little rows.
It's amazing that such an itsy bitsy thing could be capable of constructing something like this. For scale, the photograph below is maybe 1x1mm.
I thought it'd be cool to photograph, and so I set up two lights obliquely to either side and used a 50mm lens with about 11cm extension. I found that what I thought was the internal structure was actually on top; it became apparent that what I was looking at were hundreds of thousands of tiny little homes for some tiny little sea creature. From a distance, they look organized into little rows.
It's amazing that such an itsy bitsy thing could be capable of constructing something like this. For scale, the photograph below is maybe 1x1mm.