Pretty rock of the day: Rhyolite (improved)

I had a lot of fun with my slab of rhyolite when I first got my microscope, and even the macro shots with the camera came up nicely. The original post with just the normal camera is here, and a comparison between camera and microscope here. I thought I'd done a post with just microscope shots but it looks like I just put the pictures on Facebook without doing an LJ post. (That link is to the whole album). From memory that was during one of the LJ DDoS attacks which made posting text near impossible, and uploading images to Scrapbook *absolutely* impossible. My new Flickr account says hello.

I've included one of the original microscope images here for contrast because in this second batch the colours really come out. I'm hoping a couple of these will scrub up well enough for print.

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Pretty rock of the day: Shattuckite

This pretty rock Shattuckite actually came to me as a freebie, but it works perfectly in the collection and absolutely as an unpolished slab microscope specimen. The attraction lies in the colours and patterns, rather than the geological forms. Most of these remind me of scenes from a coral reef. Enjoy.

ED: Added a Before shot for comparison.

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