lordsorril
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 7, 2020 9:33:47 GMT -5
Photo #45 African Green Opal  Note: Python is sister to female in Photo #4. |
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 9, 2020 2:43:43 GMT -5
Some people have asked why I don't put more rocks in my photos...to answer this question: The more rocks in the photo-the less detail I am able to capture on both the rocks and snake. Photo #46  |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Oct 9, 2020 8:17:53 GMT -5
Good answer!  |
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 11, 2020 5:34:16 GMT -5
Photo #47  Another one from the Salmon River, ID. |
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 13, 2020 5:24:23 GMT -5
Some granite from my garden beds/street side. Photo #48  I always get a good laugh when I see shops selling 'plain' granite.  If I could get that price I would strip mine my property...  |
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 15, 2020 5:29:28 GMT -5
Photo #49  Another piece of variegated tiger eye. |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Oct 15, 2020 8:27:22 GMT -5
Beautiful stone!
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 17, 2020 4:41:35 GMT -5
Photo #50  Smokey Quartz on the inner ring. Mixed quality Chrysoprase on the middle ring, and just plain old 'Quartz' on the outer ring. I put a quarter in the photo for reference, but, the snake is laying on top of it...all pieces are at least the size of a quarter. There were a few oddball quartz pieces with a light blue tinge, the snake just happens to be laying on two of them, you can see one in the back near the big smokey quartz. All of the quartz shown is from India. Unless it is optical grade-translucent rocks always look a bit messy to me because my eyes fixate on the internal inclusions. If I back up a few feet then the photo looks great. Here is a better photo of the larger smokey quartz piece:  And here is one for you polish photo junkies (you know who you are):  |
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 19, 2020 5:24:21 GMT -5
Photo #51  Here is one from the Connecticut River. The shape is pretty much the same as when I found it: I smoothed the edges and attempted polish. The black crystalline patterns undercut and create a textured polished surface. |
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thecrystalisle
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Post by thecrystalisle on Oct 20, 2020 14:02:58 GMT -5
I LOVE THIS THREAD! Snakes are so cute I love them (and I obviously love rocks too)
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 21, 2020 6:34:57 GMT -5
Photo #52  Here is a female ball python with some purple dyed dalmation stone and some yellow jasper. The female is 16 months old in the photo. I was worried that she might end up being freakishly large (I have seen a few in-person...offspring of specimens collected from the Lake Volta region-Ghana), but, thankfully it turns out she is near her 'grown' size and I don't need to be concerned about building custom enclosures to house giant ball pythons... Fun fact: Ball pythons don't stop growing their entire lives-they just slow down considerably at various stages of development. To those who are adept at ID'ing ball python morphs: You can see a ringer near the tail of this leopard. In this case it is likely indicative of being Het for Piebald as it was originally bright orange when she was born, and has faded considerably over time.  |
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Post by NRG on Oct 22, 2020 18:25:48 GMT -5
Photo #51 Here is one from the Connecticut River. The shape is pretty much the same as when I found it: I smoothed the edges and attempted polish. The black crystalline patterns undercut and create a textured polished surface. That's granite with the biotite undercutting. |
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 22, 2020 20:30:02 GMT -5
Photo #51 Here is one from the Connecticut River. The shape is pretty much the same as when I found it: I smoothed the edges and attempted polish. The black crystalline patterns undercut and create a textured polished surface. That's granite with the biotite undercutting. Thanks for the info! I will take this one for granite. I would not have guessed that dark mica would have survived the landscape I took it from. Having a granite shell was probably the reason this one wasn't pulverized.  ![]() At least now I can say I successfully tumbled Biotite/Mica in matrix...*pats self on back*.  |
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 23, 2020 5:22:37 GMT -5
Here are a few more pieces granite-ish pieces from the CT River. The yellow pieces can vary in color significantly (from off-white to bright yellow) so it takes me a while to tumble enough to match close enough for a photo... Photo #53  |
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 25, 2020 5:03:17 GMT -5
Photo #54  Some common milky quartz from my area. I was using this material as filler to polish my larger tumbles when I was using strictly rotary. Now I use the rotary tumblers for coarse grind only and this material is no longer in use. |
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 26, 2020 8:20:13 GMT -5
Photo #55  Note: I posted a closeup of one of the agate eyes Here |
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 28, 2020 8:23:21 GMT -5
Photo #56A  I don't like doing bulk photos of Tiger Eye because it is difficult to capture the chatoyancy at the proper angles...even moreso than Labradorescense. Included another Photo: 56B so I could document a few more pieces of this material before I moved them into storage. |
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 28, 2020 8:24:47 GMT -5
Photo #56B  For scale: These python eggs are about 5" long. (Egg size can vary significantly--larger ball pythons tend to lay larger eggs) Five eggs is common for a regular clutch--It is not uncommon to have 10+. |
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Post by lordsorril on Oct 30, 2020 5:15:36 GMT -5
Photo #57  Since I tend to tumble everything: Here are some pieces with large grains/pores. The outer ring has pieces from the mid-west. The inner ring is five pieces of Labradorite (Madagascar) that I could not get to 'flash'. I had limited success breaking quarter size pieces with no labradorescense and getting a 'flash'. However, when a stone gets below the size of a nickel-I really lose interest in it-no matter how fancy it may be. I left these five pieces as-is. |
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Post by jasoninsd on Oct 30, 2020 7:21:16 GMT -5
Another bunch of great photos! I really do appreciate the captions you're posting, with regards to both the snakes and the stones!  |
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