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Post by lordsorril on Aug 15, 2020 5:30:40 GMT -5
Axanthic is the absence of yellow and/or red pigment. Mix Axanthic genes with a yellow snake like pictured in Photo#9 or #10 and you get this: Photo# 13  Note: Stones are Black Tourmaline in Quartz. |
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Post by knave on Aug 15, 2020 6:18:48 GMT -5
Whoa. Hard to tell where the snake ends and the stones begin. Just wow.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 15, 2020 8:10:34 GMT -5
Cool camouflage!
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Post by jasoninsd on Aug 15, 2020 21:32:07 GMT -5
Axanthic is the absence of yellow and/or red pigment. Mix Axanthic genes with a yellow snake like pictured in Photo#9 or #10 and you get this: Photo# 13 Note: Stones are Black Tourmaline in Quartz. This picture is my favorite so far...by a long shot! Fascinatingly beautiful! |
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 16, 2020 6:25:27 GMT -5
Axanthic is the absence of yellow and/or red pigment. Mix Axanthic genes with a yellow snake like pictured in Photo#9 or #10 and you get this: Photo# 13 Note: Stones are Black Tourmaline in Quartz. This picture is my favorite so far...by a long shot! Fascinatingly beautiful! Thanks, this is one of my favorite pictures too! I like high contrast photos/snakes and it is tough to get higher contrast than black and white.  Note: Axanthic is a recessive trait and requires two copies of a gene to be expressed visually. Many of the younger snakes you will see in my photos have one copy of the gene already--I just need to add a second one. |
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 17, 2020 5:45:57 GMT -5
Photo #14  |
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Post by jasoninsd on Aug 17, 2020 19:34:49 GMT -5
It looks like the snake's eye color closely resembles the blue in the stone...and the brown tone also matches the snake's skin color...or are MY eyes playing tricks on me?!?
If so, wickedly good choice of subjects...if not, just lie to me and tell me I'm right! LOL
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 18, 2020 5:27:51 GMT -5
It looks like the snake's eye color closely resembles the blue in the stone...and the brown tone also matches the snake's skin color...or are MY eyes playing tricks on me?!? If so, wickedly good choice of subjects...if not, just lie to me and tell me I'm right! LOL It does look blue, your eyes are not playing tricks on you! After I took the photo I had to go back myself and look at the snakes eyes closer under better lighting-blue eyes are common with certain color variations, but, not the combination I used to produce this one. In this case: light scatter from the blue variegated tiger eye is reflecting off the silver/grey eye back to the camera.  As for brown tones--it does match pretty good, I wasn't expecting that...just trial and error. Sometimes combinations seem like they would go good together, but, the photos are ugly or weird. Speaking of tones: I've slowly started producing some finished pieces of iolite and they seem to absorb, reflect, and refract my camera flash--neat stuff, but, super weird photos... |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 18, 2020 8:53:43 GMT -5
I'm not surprised that your pictures of Iolite are wonky. Iolite is pleochroic and different angles produce different colors.
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Post by jamesp on Aug 18, 2020 14:04:11 GMT -5
Stunning thread in many ways. Photography, snakes and tumbles are all magnificent.
Where have you been hiding all those large tumbles ?! Your snakes are too sexy, wow.
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 18, 2020 16:27:18 GMT -5
Stunning thread in many ways. Photography, snakes and tumbles are all magnificent. Where have you been hiding all those large tumbles ?! Your snakes are too sexy, wow. Thanks! I really enjoy your glass tumbling threads. Maybe in a year or two I will try some myself. For now though, on the shelf with all the other 'stuff'.  |
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Post by jamesp on Aug 19, 2020 4:50:28 GMT -5
Thanks, the glass can be addictive.
I see you picked up some bead glass slag. That glass is wild and crazy lol.
Never could figure out the what the final use of much of that glass.
It melts into cool pendant size blobs but some colors are a bit unstable and vulnerable to cracking but well worth some waste.
My business for almost 3 decades was wetland restoration and mitigation.
I observed many water snakes, moccasins, copperheads, etc over the years. Amazing how they varied in color and pattern.
Especially the common water snake.
I relocated 2 copperheads from my plant growing area here in Atlanta Ga.
One 54 and another 55 inches long. They were apparently pushing record size.
For some reason the copperheads grew to large sizes in that area.
I supplied the Tennessee Aquarium an unusually large 60 inch whopper moccasin, a water snake and a large 32 inch coral snake.
The coral snake came from central Florida at Lake George. A large desolate lake known for it's large reptiles.
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 19, 2020 5:48:02 GMT -5
Wetland restoration? 3 decades! That is a long time. I was just a little kid when you started doing that.  Wetland protection/restoration is big in Massachusetts too: Recently there is a uptick in the amount of bald eagles...I know because my favorite rock-hounding area is in proximity to a new nest and the pair does not take kindly to my trespass... As far as venomous snakes...I commute into Boston each work day and that is about as far as I will push my survival luck. Whenever the topic arises of venomous snakes I ask myself what sort of life choices I made where I know so many people that keep king cobras...  My mother kept wild non-venomous water snakes as 'pets' for the warm months each year. They are the source of my original fear of snakes. I was bitten many times as a child, and I'm sure you know they are not a little 'love bite' like a ball python gives you... Yes, that millefiori bead glass you tumbled looked awesome. Since I use my tumbling finished product for photos it will be useful for my purposes. I figured I would have to sort them out into different color patterns complimentary patterns so I got a pile of it. I was worried that some of them would be drilled for bead use, but 95% of them are not. |
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 19, 2020 6:00:02 GMT -5
Photo #15  Here is some stuff I collected by the road side in my general area. The rocks look small relative to the snake. About 90% of the granite I tumble comes out fine---there is usually a mottled polish, but, I think it is still neat. Note: The orange and green piece of granite on the bottom is a novelty to me--I had only spotted some in the mulch outside my workplace during lunch...recently though while gathering pink granite I found a big chunk of it in a river bed in NH. |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 19, 2020 8:18:28 GMT -5
Nice picture!
The Green/Peach stone is most like Unakite.
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 19, 2020 12:25:01 GMT -5
Nice picture!
The Green/Peach stone is most like Unakite.
Definitely looks like Unakite! I can clean up Unakite a lot better than this form of granite though!  Edit: Here is a little video of what I get for polish on Granite. |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 19, 2020 18:26:42 GMT -5
Interesting. I've never seen that color combo in granite before.  |
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Post by jasoninsd on Aug 19, 2020 20:30:08 GMT -5
Another beautiful combo pic! Thanks for putting the quarter in the pic. My wife thinks all your snakes are at a minimum 15 feet long! She must because the 9 inch Garter snake she was telling me about was purported to be about 7.5 feet!  I do love her though! |
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 20, 2020 7:04:05 GMT -5
Another beautiful combo pic! Thanks for putting the quarter in the pic. My wife thinks all your snakes are at a minimum 15 feet long! She must because the 9 inch Garter snake she was telling me about was purported to be about 7.5 feet! I do love her though! Thanks! I showed one of my adult males your post...he thought it was amusing.   |
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Post by lordsorril on Aug 21, 2020 5:34:03 GMT -5
'Bad Luck Brian' Strikes Again:  |
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