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Kind of like this tree- straight shot with super wide angle-taken two years ago today

For Iridescent theme
These Brushy Creek iridescent marcasite on calcites came out in the 1990's and were mined by Mike Kilbaso. Neal Pfaff was a fellow miner and he always came to the Raleigh Mineral Show. I would spend all weekend going through his flats and really learned a lot about quality minerals. He and Chris Wright and Jeff from Crystal Perfection were the only three dealers that really sold minerals. I bought this from Neal who had gotten it from the personal collection of Mike to sell. He always brought something cool and reasonably priced. It is one of the best hand sized ones that I have ever seen. No dings and the crystals are well separated and make nice grouping. Well, during retirement in covid, I decided to make images of my collection. Focus stacking and mirrorless cameras had been invented and made it possible and affordable -I have always been a photographer and liked abstracts. Really liked all genres of photography and got pretty good at it. But back then macro was incredibly difficult with film and you were limited when it came to depth of field.
All photos made in bright sun on my apartment porch bannister where I like to display my minerals (and the one place I am permitted to smoke). 🙂With cropping and booking, it made for some really textile patterns. Goal for these designs is to open up minerals to the fashion world. 🙂🙂 Time for designers to look at the inorganic world more closely like mineral people do 🙂🙂
Really like bucket hats as they are useful and are the best for watching football and fishing. The cool things about bucket hats is that you can reverse them for a completely different design. Make for some cool whiskey and beer glasses also-check them out and let me know what you think.
www.artoftherock.com
https://www.contrado.com/stores/art-of-the-rock/

Atacamite, Chile
https://artoftherock.com/products/long-scarf-atacamite-crystals-from-chile-version-2