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Here are some awesome rock photos from The Boston Globe's The Big Picture section, which I always enjoy. The other non rock related pics are just as good.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/1 ... orlds.html



"A polished piece of Mexican fire agate, viewed at a magnification of 4x, imaged by Thomas Shearer of ColdStone Photography, LLC in Duluth, Minnesota. (Courtesy of Nikon Small World)"




"This image of a radial crystal spray of a phosphate mineral called cacoxenite viewed at at 18x magnification took 8th Place. The image was made by Honorio Cocera-La Parra of the Geology Museum, University of Valencia in Benetusser, Valencia, Spain. (Courtesy of Nikon Small World)"

That’s really cool!

I saw a blurb about that micro-photography on Yahoo.
I hadn’t seen any minerals --so the post is a real treat.

The photography also brings up of just how difficult it
can be to get a decent pictures of rocks---
in both the macro & micro realm.

I present this sorry photo, I took, as evidence.
This is a blue variety of cacoxenite.



The blue blob actually are very fine needles of crystals.
O well! At least the pink agate came out nice!

Thanks for taking the time to post!

Ed

Hell O Dzrtgrl, and Roc2rol, Nice pictures, now you've got me breaking rocks! Hope I don't lose an eye! Homar

Hi Coaz !
Ha ha! Break’n rocks is ancient noble art !
Knapping, milling, cracking geodes,chain gang ect ….

Cold chisel technique

To get smaller stones for my tumbler I put the rocks in a old sock.
Larger rocks that require the sludge hammer technology
I cover with heavy towel ect…
and it go without saying that
safety glasses are required

Ed

Hi there,

Love your photos... anyone have tips for SMALL lipothysae? I have some jewelry size geodes I collected from the baker egg mine in NM that I'm quite sure not only have the quartz & agate, but some DO contain tiny orange wulfenite crystals in silica.. so far, even with a diamond blade on a dremmel, they tend to burst... sugesstions anyone?
Leesah

EEEK! That sounds like finesse work!
Can't say I have heard of lipothysae
Could you post a picture of the nuggets
so could formulate an idea?

But couple a questions anyway
are you using like a 1” diameter blade on the dremel?
Are you cutting it wet?

post pics & good luck !
Ed

Here is some delicate mineral specimen
I picked up at the Flagg show

Wulfenite

½ price sale I bought quite few
and hard to photograph
enjoy
Ed