I go outside when I need to have my best chance of getting the color right.
Have learned much more about what I want in a camera, so I'll be able to make a more educated choice next time.
Love it! Love that style of marbles. I remember them from when I was a kid. They're like the comfort food of marbles. The Macaroni & Cheese of marbles.
Not what I think of when I hear alabaster.
Alabaster is white. Here are some "real" allies.
If that's stone, then I think it's in the category of "mineral sphere", rather than marble.
I was having trouble getting colors and focus to come close to working. Then finally I decided I had given it a good enough shot.
.... and then my camera leapt out of my hands and into the middle of the marbles, sending them sprawling across the table and some onto the floor and there's at least one moon in one of my favorites (the tiger-eye-colored cat's eye) ... and I haz a sad.
But it's not too bad so I'll haz a happy again soon.
Friend got them from a gift shop in Colorado. He knew they were modern but figured "marbles = Stephanie". Has some beauties. Including one with the single color lightning-strike-like pattern around the middle.
The pictures are rather small. But my first impression is that at least the bottom two are "torchmade". Made by hand by an individual. Possibly not an individual whose name we would know unless the person signed their work.