ISO 80; f/5.7; 1/100; 100mm; 7:29am (Canon SX100) (Manual mode)
The Palm Trees were being watered this morning. This border rock was benefitting from a misdirected sprinkler. Taken in at ground level, zoomed in. Cropped and levels adjusted.
Aug 212010
Mar 292010
Blue rocks fascinate me. It seems like such a non-rock color to me. I fell in love with the blue mineral in quartz matrix which is called Kyanite the first time I saw it many years ago. In fact, it starting me on a small collection of blue minerals back when I was a collector. Although some people do make jewelry with Kyanite, it typically is not considered a gemstone. It has some industrial use… and of course is of value to collectors.
The background rock is a geode. This photo was taken surreptitiously, thus I thought it was lucky to catch the same colors in a different type of rock right there in the background.
Jan 152010
How bold of nature to make a rock with these two colors side-by-side! This rock is called “Sonoran Sunset Chrysocholla” – and I took a picture in its raw form. I fell in love with this rock at first site! The owner of the jewelry shop was nice enough to pull it out of the case and set it out for me to take a photo.
I thought she had said it was found in Arizona… but on the web the only location I see is Northern Mexico. Of course, Northern Mexico borders AZ, so maybe it was found in AZ, near the Mexican border. Rocks probably don’t understand borders.
You should see these in its original 4000 x 3000 pixel size on my 23″ screen. Now that is BOLD!
The store that let me take this images (and many others) was All in Vein; they will be in Quartzsite for Jan and Feb.
Processing: I adjusted levels and contrast a bit.
Jan 132010
I went on my first photo walk today. I walked over to the Quartzsite Gem & Mineral show going on in Tyson Wells. So, this is the first time that I’ve taken a photo for this blog specifically, rather than pulling from past images. Actually, I took quite a few photos, but this is the first that I thought I’d try out.
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