Agate

Erwin Woenckhaus, on October 22, 2007, said:

Wow... very nice picture, Alan!

Greetings from Chile.

AlexMatos, on October 23, 2007, said:

Nice job on this one Alan

Cheers, Alex

Gibrail, on October 23, 2007, said:

fantastic!

Alan Knox, on October 23, 2007, said:

Thank you Erwin Woenckhaus, Alex and GabriGibra!

Alan

Rom@nce, on October 24, 2007, said:

cool (blue) effect Alan :o)

Alan Knox, on October 24, 2007, said:

Thank you, Rom@nce!

Alan

rosina lamberti, on October 24, 2007, said:

great colour alan, looks electric :)

Alan Knox, on October 24, 2007, said:

Thanks Rosina!

Alan

Sarah Graham, on October 25, 2007, said:

This is really beautiful, Alan - yellow star! They could almost be mussel shells in a certain light!

Alan Knox, on October 25, 2007, said:

Thanks Sarah! :-) Yes, the range of colours in agate can be so beautiful.

Alan

Pennington, on November 6, 2007, said:

Wow -- I thought it was mussel shells! Desaturating the rest of the photo is very effective here. Nice!

Gibrail, on November 7, 2007, said:

yellow sar......is my fevourite!

Alan Knox, on November 7, 2007, said:

Thank you so much GabriGibra! :-D

Alan

♫ Swissmay, on December 2, 2007, said:

Very, very beautiful, Alan! And my favourite blue, I love those stones. Do you have them in Scotland?

Greetings, May

Alan Knox, on December 2, 2007, said:

Thank you Swissmay! Yes, I love agate too. I don't think agate can be naturally found in Scotland but I may be wrong. I found these stones in a museum store.

Alan

Brant McDowell, on January 28, 2008, said:

An example of the art of nature… chemical zonation. This agate probably developed in the space of a bubble, frozen in a cooling body of lava. The agate slowly developed as the fluids in the lava cooled as with the rock that surrounded it. That cooling of the system and the shifting chemistries that accompanied it is here recorded like tree-rings in this small bit of the Earths history, in the palm of your hands… and yet some people would just see a rock.

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Cheers from Canada

Brant McDowell, on January 28, 2008, said:

Oh... agate can be found everywhere that has volcanic rocks. For instance the Isle of Skye is roughly 80% volcanic flows.

www.einkauf.tk, on May 4, 2008, said:

Great picture!

greetings