This was taken using the rather nice miXscope program for OS-X, which does things like time lapse films as well as stills at the camera's (admittedly rather low) highest resolution.
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Math-Scientific/miXscope.shtml
The photo shows salt sitting on a printed page.

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Math-Scientific/miXscope.shtml
The photo shows salt sitting on a printed page.