Pyromorphite from Broken Hill...

crocoite · Post by **crocoite** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:11 am

Broken Hill is famous for its spectacular minerals. This is an exceptionally nice green pyromorphite (a lead phosphate mineral).

Specimen is 50mm across...

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:39 am

Very beautiful green on that specimen Steve and a great looking studio shot also. The light box you build is working perfectly IMO. I like the gradiant it makes in the background.

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:59 am

It looks like a bowl shaped marine algae.

Moebius · Post by **Moebius** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:05 am

I scrubbed my back with that last night!

Ken Nelson

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:11 pm

Mobius said"

I scrubbed my back with that last night!

After all that time in the Amazon, I can believe it.

Hate to be a critic but it looks like a rotten brussel sprout to me

Naw just kidding but it does sort'a. I don't know a lot about rocks, so posts like these educate me some. Thanks Steve.

crocoite · Post by **crocoite** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:20 pm

Moebius wrote:I scrubbed my back with that last night!

Ken Nelson

Hope you didn't get lead poisoning Ken!

crocoite · Post by **crocoite** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:22 pm

Ken Ramos wrote:...it looks like a rotten brussel sprout to me...

I bet you hated them when you were a kid Ken!

crocoite · Post by **crocoite** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:23 pm

beetleman wrote:Very beautiful green on that specimen Steve and a great looking studio shot also. The light box you build is working perfectly IMO. I like the gradiant it makes in the background.

Thanks Doug. I took a whole heap of photos yesterday and today using that setup so I might find another one or two to post...

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:24 am

Steve replied:

I bet you hated them when you were a kid Ken!

No quite the opposite. I really liked Brussel Sprouts and still do enjoy them from time to time.

crocoite · Post by **crocoite** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:29 am

Ken Ramos wrote:No quite the opposite. I really liked Brussel Sprouts and still do enjoy them from time to time.

I'm partial to them too. In fact, we have an unusual family in that both our kids also like them!

Mike B in OKlahoma · Post by **Mike B in OKlahoma** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:46 pm

This is a beauty, I've never seen one like it! Great subject, well photographed. The light box is nice indeed.

I actually think brussel sprouts are okay...Had never had them until I was in my late teens and early 20s, when I ate a lot of institutional food for awhile (University dorms and Army mess halls, not the type of institution you were thinking!) and we got sprouts a lot 'cause they were cheap! But I actually developed a taste for them in moderation.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:46 pm

Mike said!:

I ate a lot of institutional food for awhile

We all have to pay our debts Mike.

Caught me off guard there for a second though. What

Ol' Mike there did some time?

...no one could steer me right but momma tried...momma tried...
(Merl Haggard) my best impression.