Life is busy. People say to "stop and smell the roses," but some days, it's difficult enough to just remember to take a second to breathe. But it's really true — it's important to stop and appreciate what's around us, because it's pretty amazing that life continues to happen, even when ours feel chaotic.
One photographer and scientist has taken magnificent magnified photos of grains of sand to try and get us to think a little more about our surroundings — to stop and see the sand.