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Opal Butte, Oregon. Carved and polished. ~9 x 7.8 x 1.8 cm at widest points. Used two soft boxes and conical light tent to diffuse light and cut glare.... This Opal changes color a lot depending on the light.
Opalized wood has been in the ground much longer. The original petrifying minerals have been replaced with other minerals of various colors and textures. The tree is beginning to lose its organic shape and turn into a semi-precious stone.
It looks like a beautiful landscape to me, but I can't deny that it also looks like an egg. ☺️ For my part, I broke all the romance.
I've been working on a little project for a bit, and it's finally almost time to share it with you all. I very nearly set the opening for tomorrow for the lols, since it's 4/20. I figured a lot of people might be out celebrating though, and I don't want to get in the way of that lol. So 4/21 it is! We're not doing an event with a DJ or anything, just opening the place up to the public. So you can come and go as you please.
I've designed Opal Reef to be somewhat abyssal, but especially this brine pool spot my pal Adna and I are posing in here. It's something I've been planning in my head for a long time, as I've always loved abyssal waters and the creepy creatures that roam around in them. So don't worry if you see a few critters around that you're not used to, they won't bite. Unless I tell them to. 😈
See you there soon!
Here's what Adna is wearing:
Cynefin - Nemissa Tail
AviGlam Sinister Eyes - Wicked
Lelutka - Avalon Head
Enfer Sombre Dahlia Skin - Mermaid
Doux Hair - Bebe
FFS Merfolk Triton Nemissa Tail BOM Tattoo in Pink (body and scales as well)
Kio Kio Atlantis Gills
Bliensen + MaiTai Vilde Headpiece
LVL9 - Kraken's Reach Trident
Petrichor - Pearedine Makeup - Lilli
VoluptasVirtualis - Seren set for collar, top, and forearms
ContraptioN Bento Teeth - The Sharps
Here's what I'm wearing:
Head: Lelutka Halle
Body: Maitreya Lara
Hair: Little Bones - Infinite
Tail: Aii - Siren Tail
Skin: Maze - Frankie [tinted by me]
Scales: Izzie's - Body Mermaid Scales
Animated glow tattoo: [KENSHO] - Dragon Blood Tattoo
Glowies: Aii - Cosmic Crybaby
Jeweled collar: FAKEICON / mary gems collar / black / maitreya
Body gems: FAKEICON / poxic gemsuit / black (unpacked)
Eyes: Ikon - Immortal Eyes - Nymph
Rings and hand gems: Voluptus Virtualis - Heidi
Top: Violent Seduction - Nemissa Bra
Handheld crystal: Petrichor - Kinins Crystal [Obelisk-Float-L]
And here's what you can see of the build pieces:
Brine pools (at least that's what I used them as lol: Stormwood - Mineral Hot Springs
Ground texture: custom by me
Stones on the ground: LOVE - GEM STEPPING STONES - MOONSTONE
Tree: +Half-Deer+ - Deadwood Tree - Brown
Coral: 7PLUS
Stone walls: inVerse - Cliff Screen #3
Stone platform: :FANATIK: - LAND SHAPES - Ramp 04
Three opal rings... all three rings have bands with pierced overlay detailing and Andamooka Matrix gem opal cabs.
This is my second in what I hope will be a series of pastel/charcoal drawings I will be doing to fill my moleskine. They are of my flickr contacts' photos. This one is for pastorfuture. His delightful photo which I used for this one is here www.flickr.com/photos/pastorfuture/1269933228/
If you have a second its worth a look on black View On Black
The Opal Pool is one of several strikingly coloured thermal pools in the Midway Geyser Basin in Yellowstone. On this shot I wanted to show the pool in its general setting. I have cropped it a little but the colours are as natural as I could make them. Yellowstone is a sort of natural Photoshop
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT HAVE A GREAT DAY
This one needs just a little more shaping and polishing to become a small pendant. 1.8 x .8 x .5 cm. Was 1.2 grams before I trimmed it. I think this is an Australian jelly opal, but I don't remember for sure.
Opal Boulders from Quilpie, Queensland. At the Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum in Bathurst, NSW Australia
OPAL for Lelutka Zora.
A fantasy shape, a little bit quirky with a different look.
METIS SHAPESHIFTER..
Dare to be different.
Firstly, I should say again these are called Hibiscus Harlequin Beetles or may have other names, apart from their scientific name. But like I said yesterday, I like to think of them as opals as they have the intense colours of the very best of these magic gems. Red is best!
Unfortunately, conditions were so windy and difficult, I really had to freeze this shot but it impacted the DOF a bit, made worse by the angle of the leaf and proximity to the subject on which this crowd of baby harlequins was sticking together. Perhaps I should have pushed up the ISO but well, things don’t always work out in a blizzard! A bracket of shots at different settings didn’t improve things.
Wynnum Wetlands Reserve.
Many bird species, including hummingbirds, use spider web to build their nests, here an opal-rumped tanager is gathering a spider web.
My youngest daughter Opal love to pick the wild flowers while out for a walk.
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Fifteen minutes or so after this image was made, I fell and acutely ruptured my patella tendon and luxated my patella as well. It took over an hour to shuffle backwards, a few inches at a time, to the start of the trail and from there another few hours until I was seen at the ER.
It's been a little over eight weeks since that moment, and I've already manged a number of shorter hikes with my brace on. Today, my physical therapist let me get on the exercise bike. I call that progress.
Image made with my Hasselblad 500 C/M.
Love the emerald water at Opal Creek. Something I found while googling about Opal Creek, it was not named after the water color rather after a woman (a US forest service ranger's wife)
The soft, fine, sugar-white dunes of Opal Beach, part of the longest stretch of nationally protected seashore in the US, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Navarre Beach, FL
Opal Pool, Opal Creek Wilderness, Oregon
I am finally getting around to playing with photos again. I got a new laptop for my Birthday a few weeks ago since my previous one couldn't handle all my pictures, photoshop was extremely slow, and the built-in wifi cutout after about an hour.
I hiked this lovely trail Superbowl Sunday (I don't really enjoy watching sports on TV, I find it extremely boring and the commentators obnoxious) and despite the weather constantly threatening me with rain, it was a great hike surrounded by incredible nature. :) I will have to go back since I missed the turnoff for the Sawmill Falls, which I feel very silly about.
Opal engagement ring still as beautiful as the wearer after 50 plus years since we were engaged. Lighting one white Adaptalux lamp.
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Another one of the plethora of trails I have found myself along this past year. This one out in the Opal Creek wilderness. You have to love a densely lush patch of green forest.
My Christmas/anniversary present my husband bought for me. I really love the fire of this ring. Levian opal diamond ring with blue topazes and strawberry gold. #jewelry #macromondays
The perfect calendar for me - 24 15g balls of sock yarn. Going to make Blythe sweaters and stripey socks.