Roman Mosaic

Photographing mosaics is probably the easiest photography you'll ever encounter. Just shut off your flash (provided there is some light), hold your camera as still as you can and shoot away in auto mode. (If there's little light use your flash.) Try zooming in close to isolate the objects that you like in the mosaic.

Here's a mosaic from the Getty Villa in Malibu, CA.

The Greeks constructed pebble mosaic streets with animal decorations 400 BC.

In 200 BC the pebbles from which mosaics were so small, that after they were constructed, they could have been mistaken for paintings.

The mosaic above is Roman and probably of a subject celebrating a God.