Catchup pending

I really need to catch up on a bunch of stuff:

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Mystery pretty rock of the day

I like this little quartz? thing. The crystals all seem to be clear but the base rock has interesting colours. Any tips for identification gratefully received. Even the correct terms to describe the growth habit would be helpful. It's a couple of centimetres long, wide, and tall (precision on request).

Erg, lj has done something to its picture handling and somehow managed to make it worse!

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Pretty rock of the day: Unakite

These are some quick reference pictures I took of one of the tumbled stones I picked up a few weeks ago. These were part of the reason I started the hunt for techniques to deal with reflections. It looks like it will be a while before this particular rock gets a second chance in the light box so take a look now.

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Photography experiments: Get that twinkle out of that eye

I have an interesting piece of rock possibly called Botswana agate, but I call it eyeball agate. It's rounded and shiny and has interesting things going on inside. It responded very well to an outdoor shot with lots of lovely sunshine. Mostly.

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