All right Scott, I decided not to hijack and destroy your
Wake County Rutile thread with some of my photography. I
do hope to be able to contribute and add some decent pics
to your post at sometime, but this is not that time.
However, I am not diverting from the subject line. This is still
a Wake County crystal with rutile. Infact, it's the one you
found and let me borrow to photograph, so I wanted to
show you the pics anyway. Let me get my excuses out
of the way first. Depth of field for focus is very narrow on
the Dino-Lite, so some areas are in focus and some aren't.
Calling my lighting set-up "primitive" is being too kind, so
because of the incredible reflection off the Golden Rutile,
it was especially hard to focus in on.
Maybe some other eternally struggling amateur
photographers will be able to enjoy and relate to the
progression pictured here.
Besides for being beautiful smoky in color with good clarity
and of the Tessin habit, here's a picture of our seemingly
unexceptional subject.
But under the points, on the right side in the above pic,
is buried a treasure of Rutile in an array of colors.
These first three pics are to try and navigate you around
the points of this crystal.
First pic, from top point down.
Same angle, only the mid-section of crystal is in better
focus.
And here's a shot up from the bottom of the row of points.
All right, Now it's play time.
Here are three shots of the top point trying to get pics
of the "Golden" Rutile and playing with the light some.
And here are three shots of another area I was playing with.
Thanks for looking.
Let me know if you enjoyed looking at these pics or not.
Joe