This image was taken looking down at the sand through shallow water. It’s not in focus as the water was moving. I was fascinated by the patterns on the beach that day – in the sand, in the sea and in these little pools of water on the beach.

It reminds me of cells under a microscope and I love how something so commonplace as some water on the beach can look so strange.

It makes me think of all the ways in which we come across water, the ordinariness of it as well as the beauty.It’s so much of us and so much of our lives – but sometimes we might not even recognise it, like in this image.

Dr Sally Dowling,

Lecturer in Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals,

University of Bristol