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My two youngest looking for agates on Lake Superior last August. This version I liked with them more silhouted.
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Or maybe I should change the title of this Laguna agate abstract to "agate obsession."
I have known men who will lie, cheat, steal and bully in order to possess the most beautiful agates or to keep you from finding or purchasing them. Interestingly, i've never known a woman who reacted this way when it came to agates..... to men yes..... to agates no!
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Nikon D700
60mm f/2.8 micro lens
orton effect applied
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Foto scattata sulla splendida Agate Beach di Newport.
Grazie a Massimiliano Scordino per l'aiuto in pp.
18 Settembre 2011, Nikon D3S+Nikkor 24-70 f/2.8
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The wonderful Agate Beach in Newport, Oregon, U.S.A.
Tks to Massimiliano Scordino for the help in post production.
18 September 2011, Nikon D3S+Nikkor 24-70 f/2.8
Ancestral Puebloan people used petrified wood for a variety of purposes including tools such as projectile points, knives, and scrapers. Agate House demonstrates another innovative use of petrified wood: as a building material. The eight-room pueblo was built and occupied sometime between 1050 and 1300 in a location near agricultural fields and petrified wood deposits.
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Petrified Forest National Park
Holbrook, Arizona
Dec 2016
I came across this delightful neglected patch on a summer walk through a local village. The garden seemed abandoned and the whole thing had been taken over by this mass of Oxeye-daisies. I was mesmerised by their humble glory.
Flat, slightly pointed agate beads separated by goldplated bicone metal beads, 3 polymer clay beads with red, white, gold and dashes of black separated by goldfilled beads. Outstanding without being over the top hence a siren thats slightly shy, not loud.
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Nikon F-801s
Soligor C/D Zoom+Macro 28mm-55mm/ƒ3.3
Kodak Ektachrome 100D_5285 Cine film [exp. 2008]
Flic Film C-41 - cross processed
3-panel stitch
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Nikon F-801s
Zeiss ZF.2 100mm/ƒ2
Kodak Ektachrome 100D_5285 Cine film [exp. 2008]
Flic Film C-41 - cross processed
3-panel stitch + blending anomalies
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Two Harbors, Minnesota
Starting my one day adventure at the harbor, watching the pink sky paint everything on the canvas. It's a favorite bay area to watch "Lakers" load ore.
It was a grand sky on this morning, as I started my trip up the shoreline towards Grand Portage and the border!
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I fell in love with this agate. ❤ I couldn’t quite find the right words for it. It has a slightly botryoidal texture, and it also reminds me of fire agates. But not. In terms of color, it looks like a bird’s eye view of the areas around geyser basins, formed by extremophile bacteria.
All agates are unique and do not repeat. We can observe many eyes on the mother body of agate - these are new nuggets (in geology this is called spherulites*) Silicone form of life.
In scientific geological circles, there are still disputes about the life of Agate. However, agate has been proven to be a form of life.
Agates - live, eat and breed. They have a male body (layer) and a female body (geode). Spherulite agate contains both forms. As a rule, the layer is the outer shell and skin, the geode is inside. But gobi agates do not lend themselves to scientific classification at all and show individuality, as if each specimen is a separate species, that is, they build their bodies the way they want and reproduce in different ways. Agate can slowly rearrange molecular bonds, turning the layer into a geode, without increasing in size. In general, the size for the development of Agatha is not the main thing. There are varieties of Agate that grow no more than a couple of millimeters. In geology there is no definition for these minerals, I called them "millimetres".
This form of life exists in another corridor of time. Human life is too short to observe agates in nature, it seems to us absolutely static. But in the DZI agate beads - a miracle! We can observe changes after they are created. It is safe to say that the bead is not millions of years old, perhaps hundreds or extremely rarely thousands of years old, however, the growth of the skin on the bead is obvious, as well as the formation of Dragon Blood, the overgrowth of cracks, the appearance of new layers ... This significantly narrows the time corridor for mineralogy.
"Carbon chauvinism"
This term is a consequence of the assumption that everything that can be called living must be built primarily from carbon. It is clear that this form of life is closest to us, so it is extremely difficult for us to imagine a different biochemistry.
The author of the term, astrophysicist Carl Sagan, criticizing this point of view, suggested that the basis for its nomination is only the fact that its adherents themselves consist of carbon and water and absorb oxygen in the process of metabolism.