Pink Sand Beaches Photo

Photographer’s Note

Bermuda beaches are truly beautiful, many of them tinged with a subtle pink hue. The pink hue is given by tiny single-celled animals, Foraminifera, in particular, homotrema rubrum - or forams - dark red skeletal animals that grow in abundance on the underside of Bermuda's coral reefs. When the red forms die, the skeletons plummet to the ocean floor.

Wave action erodes the forams. They become mixed with other debris on the seabed such as the white shells of clams, snails and sea urchins. It is at that time that Bermuda's white sand takes on its characteristic pink hue.

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paulw (2014) 2006-02-22 8:04

Beautiful photo. Great colour to it. The image seems a little slanted, but it's well captured.

cuench (216) 2006-02-23 3:13

hello it's just like a dream... now need summmmmmmmer... :-)
Thanks
David

PDP (439) 2006-02-27 15:34

Hello Rob, very simple and pleasing. I like it. I think I would have been tempted to simplify it even futher and clone out the swimmers. Lovely shot, well done.

smash2707 (2516) 2006-03-02 17:20

The colors of this beach are just amazing. Regards, Yvonne

sebinho342 (18740) 2006-05-04 17:57

wooowww :)
Very nice picture, a dreamy one, as i love dreaming watching beaches, a pleasure this one Rob
... And some elegance to sign "bermuda" instead of your name, congratulations