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Post by TheRock on Sept 27, 2018 2:30:15 GMT -5
FWIW, though I'm definitely not one of the folks with perfect anything, I think I have the 'everything' posted from one batch on a flickr album thus far. And I have pics for the rest of the second I need to eventually get up somewhere. ...I just have a UV-18, tiny photo space, and that means ten tons of pics and it takes two full days to get all the pics done from a finished batch, so I've let that slip by the wayside a LOT. There's nowhere I could actually do one of the big spread pics with decent light, even outside. ETA: I'll try to get the remaining pics I've got up there some time tonight and tomorrow if I can. It's probably handy as a good reference for my relative newbie results, too. Everyone has their own standards and degrees of of desire on how far they want to advance in this hobby. I guess that's why they have contest's and competitions. To measure the progression of a persons ability. for those that want to challenge themselves it is available. Comparing Ideas and what others do when they run across a certain or same obstacle advances a persons knowledge so you can navigate around or through them more easily. Many of us have different abilities, financial, and time restraints, that may conflict with advancing as quickly in this hobby as others have, and that's okay too. As long as your having fun and develop friendships is the most important thing.
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surreality
starting to spend too much on rocks
is picking up too many rocks at the beach again
Member since January 2012
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Post by surreality on Sept 27, 2018 3:08:17 GMT -5
Exactly this! All the stuff piled up enough to be mixed together now from a few batches, but thankfully there are shots of all the quartz, and 'this is two batches of everything else' isn't that big a mix-up to manage.
I have the pit question myself lately, though. I'd ideally like things to be perfect, but:
* The nature of the material in some cases; ex: often the quartz has a lot of cracks that, while they're smooth, they still show up as fractures even if there are no remaining gaps -- I just have to live with this one. The other stuff is very pitted due to a lot of it being sedimentary; there's going to be a lot of 'live with it' too I'm going to have to get used to.
* ...sometimes getting rid of the pits with the tools I have (and I can't afford more for some time) would mean losing all the interesting features of the rock. Some I'm willing to set aside in a 'wait a long time' bucket if they're truly exceptional, but others? Feh, they don't need to be perfect, and once they've started, they're more or less worse off than when they started out as a maybe-something than as 'not perfect' if they get dropped partway through as dull grit-filled pitty messes. When something clearly hits this point, it just gets set aside for a batch to do together that will just need extra washing up and scrubbing and whatnot between stages to use as generic vase filler or what-have-you.
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Post by TheRock on Sept 27, 2018 12:05:25 GMT -5
Exactly this! All the stuff piled up enough to be mixed together now from a few batches, but thankfully there are shots of all the quartz, and 'this is two batches of everything else' isn't that big a mix-up to manage. I have the pit question myself lately, though. I'd ideally like things to be perfect, but: Don't Worry Be Happy!
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