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orionid, what do you use as a UV light source? just regular black light?

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I really thought I’d end up going macro this week. I’ve got a fist-sized clump of halite (salt) crystals, some garnets in granite, petrified wood, mollusk fossils, etc. Kind of ran out of time and can’t exactly set up a macro shoot in my office during the work day.

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some of my unchosen from this week

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looks positively grueling.

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I don’t think moved from rivers or streams is the problem, just not altered.

what about polished? If we’re going to allow geodes, do we allow polished? like I’ve got a chunk of jade that’s about six inches long and four inches thick, and it’s been cut from a larger piece, so three of the sides are flat cut from the saw that cut them. I was thinking of doing a macro of the cut surface, but is that out?

Many mineral specimens have simarly been removed from their original matrix rock. are garnets still captured in granite ok, but garnets out aren’t? what about rough-cut non-jewlery-finished gemstones, like opal, that have been cut as a display piece, not for jewelry?

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thanks. as soon as I saw them all together in the post earlier, I started rethinking my plans.

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there’s hardly any tweaking of colors. that’s very close to how it came out of the camera.

this is the other series.

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sorry. I saw the three together on one monitor against my other choice on the second monitor and realized I hadn’t made up my mind yet.

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hmm. now I can’t decide.

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well I was gonna use these

but I found three I like better together.

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do all three images have to have never been used before in any contest?

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>a dude who welds 8 ft sasquatches might not be someone to mess with

crazy dudes who weld stuff and put it up in their yards are always happy to have someone to talk to, in my experience.

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I think I should have gone with the moose and the mink.

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we fold over in half in the heat, though.

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dude, my kids are rugged. this past weekend, the 13 year old had some friends over and they stripped down to boxers and rolled in the snow for the hell of it. it’s hell getting them to wear a coat to school if it’s above 20 degrees…they just want to wear a sweatshirt.

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