#photomicrograph
Golden columns of #biotite in #quartz. Field of view = 3.05mm
This type of mica tends to be very gemmy and a beautiful color at this size.
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How big, how blue, how beautiful. New camera, new adapter, testing, testing, and more testing. Koroit boulder opal, Australia. FOV = 2mm
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To start the new year, I figured I’d try a micro mineral shot. This is a 2.8mm #garnet #crystal from the Doomsday prospect near De Luz in San Diego County. It’s most likely an almandine-spessartine blend.
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it’s getting cold outside! why not throw a log on the fire and warm up with your favorite #opal.
this is most likely limonite after hornblende in Mexcian opal.
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…the after photo.
Radiating #hematite and #rutile in quartz. Oblique diffused and oblique pinpoint xenon lighting. Polarized.
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Today was really tough. Prince’s music is really really really important to me. I used to be a gigging musician and his music was always something I could call on for strength and inspiration. I’m sad today but he left us all such a wonderfully overwhelming body of work. It will continue to bring me joy for the rest of my life.
So here’s a big, fucking, purple phallic negative crystal ready to rock. I know he’d love it.
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We all hide.
Opal, mexico. field of view 3mm
(A photomicrograph is an image taken with the aid of a microscope. Not to be confused with microphotography, which is photography using very small equipment.)
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some things are too strange and they’re beyond my skills to explain -
so i just photograph them.
opal. jalisco, mexico. fov = 3mm.
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This material is truly special.
Ilmenite and hematite in orthoclase feldspar from Harts Range, Australia.
Field of view = 3mm.
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Getting to the shot.
This is a fraction of the test shots it takes before I commit to a lighting environment.
A Close Thing.
3mm field of view inside #opal from Jalisco, Mexico.
White #rhyolite matrix added pleasure and pain to this photo.
The working title for this one was Valhalnilla.
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Video of a piece, temporarily called Ucalegon.
The colors shift but the host is still.
Opal, Jalisco, Mexico.
Field of view 2mm
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Shifting Perspective.
After many many passes at this stone, it relented and gave me this beautiful, climbing vista.
Opal.
Jalisco, Mexico.
Field of view = 3.05 (vertically)
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I revisited an old friend. It was an exciting reunion.
Opal in rhyolite with limonite after hornblende. Jalisco, Mexico.
Field of view 3.05mm
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Going back through my older photos and making these (short) videos is pretty great. It reminds me of how I was feeling when I set up the shot and all the things I was trying to light. Love it.
