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Rose Quartz for Macro Mondays. This piece of quartz is the base for an air plant which you can just see at the top of the photo.
Just one of the many geological features that make Gros Morne National Park so interesting. This one is at the foot of Shag Cliff.
Explore 13/09/18
Quartz with bituminous and petroleum inclusions
25 x 20 mm
Treppio, Sambuca Pistoiese, Pistoia, Toscana, Italy
Marco Bertolani Collection
I'm not used to post mineral photos on my flickr account, for this sort of photos I prefere to use my mindat profile
( www.mindat.org/gallery-48279.html ) but I really love this one. I think it is one of my best mineral shot I've taken until now so I'd like to share it with all of you.
Taking photos to complicated objects as minerals in a studio is a true challenge for a photographer, especially when they're very transparent and gemmy as this one.
You have to play with the artificial lights to get the reflections you want on the crystal faces but being careful to dull the lights so you don't get too strong reflections.
You also have to master the focus stacking technique sometimes taking more than 50 photos in a row to the same crystal!
In the end, at least for my experience, you have to play with Photoshop to make a nice background and a realistic reflection which is a huge part of the job, sometimes taking hours and hours of work.
It's been a little while since my last upload, I have a backlog of images partly processed from this winters trips to finish and should be uploading quite regularly over the spring and summer months
This image was made last week in Fuerteventura, where I was hosting a workshop
One thing that struck me, on reflection, is the vastness of locations like this, it's completely different to my normal situation, where I have defined subjects and quite often limited angles to shoot from, I usually find myself fine tuning compositions. Here the compositions are endless and that in itself is quite daunting.
Anyway some techy info
Canon FD 35mm TS shifted twice to make a square
Sony A7r
F11
Iso 125
1/250
This specimen measures 18 x18x16 mm. The photo is a composite of 21 photographs combined using Helicon Focus DOF software.
Beautiful phantom quartz we own, with 4 inside phantoms. Taken with Canon EOS 60D, in homemade light box.
Locality: Kakamunurie Mine, Karur, Tamil Nadu, India
For a back-lit view of this specimen see:
www.flickr.com/photos/usageology/51109808888/in/photostream/
Quartz vein in granite-like boulder. Along use trail to Pusch Peak, Santa Catalina Mountains, north of Tucson AZ.
Locality: Prism Mine, Arizona
This is a close up view of: www.flickr.com/photos/usageology/50760486877/in/dateposted/
here is another version of my moon and star collection ...
this one is a nearly square crystal quartz caboshon ...
comes on a 17 inch oxidized, sterling silver baby rolo chain
2019 Weekly Alphabet Challenge - B is for Bright
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Radiolarian Chert Quartz - Hearst San Simeon State Beach Ca - Chert is primarily a hard sedimentary rock composed of billions of microscopic, silica rich skeletons (Radiolaria). The skeletons are not made of quartz, but after burial, compaction, and chemical changes, the silica rich sediments transform to quartz. The word “knocker” is a regional geologic term used to describe lone outcrops of bedrock that rise above the surrounding landscape in areas typically underlain by the Franciscan Complex.
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Pyrite, Quartz, Hematite (Πυρίτης, Χαλαζίας, Αιματίτης)
Animon mine, Huaron Pasco, Peru
76 x 68 x 52 mm
from Internationale
© Grigoris Deoudis
Here is a Quartz crystal with Dumortierite inclusion from the Vaca Norta quarry, Bahia, Brazil. 2cm.
Smoky quartz with overgrown purple red pyrope and black inclusions of ilmenite and sulfides.
Late hydrothermal takeover
Like sea grass in an aquarium Epidote crystals are included into the Quartz crystal, The fragile Epidote crystals formed on the host matrix then a Quartz crystal like a protective case formed over them saving them forever from the wear and tear of nature, all the Epidote crystals outside the Quartz have long since worn away. Kharan, Pakistan, 3"
Contax 139 Quartz, Kodak Portra (I think 160, but I honestly can't remember!) Find me elsewhere! Website Blog Twitter Instagram & please like Millie Clinton Photography on Facebook! Email: enquiries@millieclinton.com These images are protected by copyright, please do not use them for any commercial or non-commercial purposes without permission. For licensing queries (or any other questions!) please email: enquiries@millieclinton.com