Macro Mondays, theme: "Z"/"Zed"

A bronze Dhokra elephant from India, placed inside a quartz geode (amethyst), photographed with a Nikon Z - a "triple Z".

4-image focus stack.

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Sample from the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

carbon covering on SL1200 MK2

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Quartz cluster.

10x7x5.5 inches. From China.

90mm, SB700

From Peru.

Quartz cluster.

10x7x5.5 inches. From China.

Esposto alla certosa di Calci

Another from my mineral collection is this quartz. When small crystals grow in this sugar-like formation along the main 'stems' it is known as druzy, hence druzy quartz. Lead inclusions can also be seen as flecks in the crystals.

My husband bought this knife in Sedona and it is so unique. He collects small knives and I think this one with the quartz blade is my favorite.

Local RMRL821116, commonly known as the "Night Gas", rolls across Quartz Creek on MRL's 4th Subdivision.

Nikon F3, Ilford HP5

This specimen nicknamed “The Rabbit Ears” is elbaite (a member of the tourmaline group), found in 1972 at the Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, California. This 24 cm example is the finest of the 33 major specimens recovered and is considered the finest North American tourmaline. The crystals are undamaged and grow from quartz crystal and are accompanied by smaller tourmaline crystals.

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a tamron adaptall 2 sp 80-200mm f/2.8 (model 30A) lens

My second choice for Macro Mondays but I thought 'misfit' could be interpreted here as 'essential component'?!

Just playing and posted in

"Fun and Happiness"

Quartz cluster.

10x7x5.5 inches. From China.

1437.0 carat Star Rose Quartz specimen from Madagascar. In the Gem and Mineral collection at HMNS. It goes by the name of the Love Stone because it sends off strong vibrations of love, happiness, warmth, and emotional health. It possesses energy related to the heart chakra.

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Your vision connects you to the earth and all that it contains. To stop and gaze upon the simplicity and complexity of this world is to merge with it, not to the extent of losing your identity in that merging of a moment in time, but to recognise that in the carbons and atoms of all creation, there is an interconnected life.

The King Stone at Garry Beach, with its crystal heart of quartz, is one of these natural monuments which seem to reflect that reciprocity of man and nature. We gaze upon it, touch it and feel its touch upon our own souls. 'Here I stand upon shifting sands and rolling waves, yet I will not be moved'.

I'll never forget this night out with Matt Shiffler and Cosmic Chaos Adventures LLC such an incredible night to be in Alaska under the amazing aurora filled sky.

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2024 Weekly Alphabet Challenge 17/52 ~ Quartz

Weekly Theme Challenge ~ Gemstones

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Quartz crystals.

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Tartiste Style Here

Bow Fiddle Rock is a natural sea arch near Portknockie on the north-eastern coast of Scotland. It is so called because it resembles the tip of a fiddle bow. It is composed of Quartzite, a metamorphic rock which was originally quartz sandstone.

This rock is part of the Cullen Quartzite formation which is seen along the coast between Buckie and Cullen. The formation is some 2,400m thick and dates from the Neoproterozoic Era, 1,000 to 541 million years ago.

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UMD Maryland Day, College Park, MD - Geology Dept

You will find lots of Quartz veins running around and in crevices of Monzogranite boulders and rocks in Joshua Tree National Park.

Explored #207 May 21st 2023

Quartz ~ We find LOTS of it in the yard here and along the small creek where we often shoot! Like finding jewels!!

"Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει—Everything flows, nothing stands still." —Heraclitus

Quartz striations on a tiny island in Voyageurs, northern Minnesota

Woke up early yesterday morning (and the day before) to kayak through the archipelagos, this morning beaching at each small island to explore its "intimate landscapes" (I love/hate that term) - ancient rock and fresh moss, beaver skeletons and lake-tossed driftwood.

Quartz

ANSH 120 (14) what's on the inside

Quartz Tower is a part of Q Residences, which is a residential complex composed of two buildings located in the district of Buitenveldert in Amsterdam. Quartz Tower, which is 75 metres tall, was designed by Studio Gang and inaugurated in 2022.

Gems exhibition in Funchal, Madeira

Smoky Quartz on a matrix of off white albite and light brown weathered microcline from the Cathedral Rock Pluton in Ravalli County, Montana. Specimen MT-V1414

Quartz (var. agate), Oregon

Source: Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Washington, D.C.

Agate is a fine-grained variety of quartz known as chalcedony that shows concentric color banding. The colors in this agate are caused by microscopic inclusions of iron oxide minerals in the quartz. Agates are commonly found in cavities in volcanic rock, where silica-rich water deposited quartz crystals layer by layer parallel to the cavity wall.

Brazil is the major commercial source of agate.