Snakes and Stones

[Lord Sorril]

Photo #140

HGW/Lesser (Soul-Sucker), some Bead glass (man-made), and some Banded Obsidian (natural glass).

[Lord Sorril]

Also, a little off-topic, but, a 'large' beetle fell down my chimney last night. I had to rescue it from the cats. Beetles larger than a quarter are uncommon in my area of the USA.
Here is a photo of the critter:

[Lord Sorril]

Photo #141


I made a hodgepodge glass photo to see how it would look. Meh, I prefer separating the colors and making a pattern, but, it is a lot more work.

[Lord Sorril]

My camera had a hard time with this piece of labradorite and subsequent flashback.
The refractive nature of the stone gave the light reflection from the top-down LEDs I used to illuminate it a blue tinge.

Photo #142A


Photo: 142B


My dark room snake photo technique aside, under normal lighting:

[Lord Sorril]

Many moons ago I posted that I was breeding a Lavender Albino to a Het Albino-Het Pied female to see what would happen.
Answer: A whole lot of nothing (not really surprised).
The clutch is still hatching, all are 100% Het Lav Albino with 50% chance each Het Albino & Pied. I grabbed a bunch for a photo (shown below).
Statistically: half of them should be Het for both Lav Albino and Albino.


A few of them have pied markers, a few of them have reduced patterns, and one of them has more reddish brown tones...I expect this will just fade out over time.

[Lord Sorril]

Photo #143

Center: King Cobra Jasper (amusing name)
Corners: Quartzite
In between: Prairie Jasper

[Lord Sorril]

Photo #144

Prairie Jasper/Agate again.

[Lord Sorril]

Photo #145


A Lesser with a Kaleidoscope Prism Stone.

Kaleidoscope Prism Stone is known by many names. It is often mislabeled in an attempt to get less-skilled lapidary artists to purchase it for projects. This Utah stone consists of varying amounts of Agate, Amethyst, Azurite, Cuprite, Fluorite, Malachite, and Chrysocolla. Due to the varying hardness and value of the different materials...very few people attempt to polish it using tumbling methods...I just happened to get a few pieces super cheap in a bulk stone collectors collection I purchased.

[Lord Sorril]

Photo #146



Obsidian is semi-translucent so it is a tough subject as you can see imperfections a short distance into the glass. Piece on the left is silver sheen obsidian, piece on the top is banded, red is carnelian agate, and blue is sodalite.

I should have retaken this photo to get a more 'liquid' shine...but, I've been working on something very special at work and at the time I was not concerned with a few bad reflections in a few stones.

[Bogertophis]

You're "forgiven". I suspect we are FAR less critical than you are, anyway.