Mineral Mondays #54 Mineral Pictures
My wife and I take a lot of mineral pictures for our business website. I thought I would share some of my recent favorite one's with you. All photos are taken by us on a Canon EOS or our iPhones.
Pink Halite for a snack? Pink Halite, Searles Lake, Trona, Ca.
This is one of the rotating main images on our home page. I dug it up years ago. Credit - wife, Cannon EOS.
California opal. Always fun digging these out of the ground!
Credit - wife, Cannon EOS
Topazolite on clinochlore from Yellow Cat Mine, San Benito County, Ca.
I took this one on my iPhone 7 with a macro lens. I didn't alter the image in any way. I love the contrast. Topazolite is a yellowish andradite garnet.
Vanadinite. Geronimo/Pure Potential Mine, Az. I mined this back in October.
iPhone 7 with macro lens.
Pyromorphite from Idaho.
Credit - wife, Cannon EOS
Fluorite, linarite & galena on quartz from Blanchard Mine, New Mexico.
iPhone 7 with macro lens. I love these specimens. Just bought a bunch more of this rare material.
Fire Agate from Slaughter Mountain, Arizona. The colors!
Credit - wife, Cannon EOS
Apatite from Mexico
The appetites from Mexico are some of the best in the world. Their incredible appearance is mesmerizing. iPhone 7 with macro lens.
Wavelite from Arkansas.
Taken with my iPhone 7 & macro lens.
Shattuckite from Arizona.
Taken with my iPhone 7 & macro lens.
Lastly, fluorescent willemite(yellow/green), calcite(orange/red) & fluorite(purple/blue) at the Red Cloud Mine, Az.
Not the best picture, but it was night and I only had my iPhone. The colors are beautiful though.
You can see some of these pictures on our Japanese website, https://www.rt395mineralsjp.com
Good evening ❤ @rt359! Wow those look absolutely delicious! :-)
Awesome photographs of these juicy stones! That opal is so
cool, is it just on the surface or does it go deeper into the stone?
I'd found one ages ago in a creek in N.Cal. it was just a thin layer
on the end of a big green stone.
The opal does go deeper on that one. It was one side of a piece I split open. Opal forms in voids so however big the void is dictates how big the opal will be.
Have a great night.
These are superb photos! Such great photography! Bravo! 🙌
Thanks Kitty. They're not perfect, but for our work they suffice. Honestly for higher quality we would need to up to a DSLR and get a much better light studio, which we hope to do in the near future.