✨🌷 HAPPY SPRING EQUINOX 🌻✨

Sep 2024

1. Flowers collected from my garden (various sp.)

2. Fortnight Lily (Dietes grandiflora)

3. Geraldton Wax Flower (Chamelaucium uncinatum)

4. Sunset in Suburbia, Friday 20/09

5. espresso gin martini in my bee mug

Sorting mixed gems for my display:

6. peridot gem chips in strawberry cup

7. garnet* gem chips in strawberry cup

8. amethyst, blue apatite*, clear quartz chips (with a tiny amount of misc white or dark chips), kinda accidental peace sign ☮️

9. MY SPRING GEM & AIR PLANT DISPLAY 💖

note: I'll take some better pictures of the display & the details, plus will include info on the gems themselves.

💎💖✨

Double Crescent Moon Crystal Shelf

SOLD OUT Thrifted wooden crystal shelf with two crescent moons as the back drop and stairs in the front to hold trinkets. Upcycled with floral beads, abalone shell and glow in the dark resin skulls.

Measures 14 inches wide by 8 inches tall.

IG: dhdivination

I always envy those amazing glamor shots other folks can get of their rocks.... someone on another site asked for some high-quality images of the stilbite cluster and that made me sit down and figure out how to make my camera do the work. 

Turns out it’s: 

-Aperture priority, 1/13th - 1/8th shutter speed 

-ISO 100 

-Hi-def Image-stacking mode (my camera can stack three) 

-A tripod 

-A lamp and a cheap lightbox with a black craft foam backing 

-Manual focus 

-Kicking the cats out of the home office so they quit making things bump and shake 

My fancy Sony Cybershoot (AKA a point-n-shoot with an option for manual focus, not a DSLR-etcetc) managed to get these last night. Took a few tries, as the camera shows things overexposed on the screen; if I correct exposure for what I’m seeing on the camera, it’s underexposed on the monitor.