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  1. New And Need To Learn

    in Introduce Yourself!

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    Well... while I may one day "sell off" some marbles, I want it to only be to someone like the folks here who may actually say... "hey, I want that." Otherwise... I will be enjoying looking at them and learning about them.

    Especially since they are family heirlooms. Just holding them holds history. I know that sounds corny but I am a woman.

  6. Clear Swirls

    in General Marble & Glass Chat

  21. New And Need To Learn

    in Introduce Yourself!

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    Yes, Steve. I am having a blast. There are quite a few fun things in my great-grand thru father's history... from marbles to arrowheads... and I have a whole collection of letters and other material from the time my father was a P.O.W. in Germany in WWII. I have traced my father's lineage back... I have a lovely collection of arrowheads and now I can spend many many many hours learning about marbles and sharing with you all here.

  22. Big Greenies

    in Marble I.D.'s

    Posted

    I will break these down for viewing later as there are at least two of each. (The left one, and the third from left I have several.)

    They are larger than normal (and I have a whole 'nuther set of grey-ish blue ones the same size.)

    The one on the right I find especially pretty.

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  23. New And Need To Learn

    in Introduce Yourself!

    Posted

    Welcome aboard! :)

    Please forgive me for immediately addressing the 'need to learn' part of your title.

    I frequently 'push the boundaries' here with my photos, because it's my nature to

    do things with a sort of 'artistic' approach.

    This can be a great thing on occasion, but for many situations it just doesn't work.

    Your photos, both those directly posted and the ones in links, have a very limited 'focus'.

    In the long run, this doesn't work well. There's no need to post 'groups' of marbles

    where one marble's in focus and the rest are a blur. Similarly, a photo of a single

    marble should usually be 'entirely' in focus and not just have one small part of it or

    only the tablecloth background clearly visible.

    Again, please forgive me if I sound negative. It's only because you're one of the few

    'newbies' who sound like a genuinely and thoroughly nice person that I wanted to give

    my 'no doubt sometimes questionable' advice! :lol:

    No worries. I am a professional (dog, horse, stuff) photographer... and I use a macro lens (f2.8... SHORT depth of field). As time goes on I will probably focus on 1-4 marbles at a time, but with multiple shots per marble(s). I am only getting a "feel" for what I have and am working on my "studio." :) Thanks for the advice. Hey... joining any new message group is a bit like being fed to wolves. I can handle it.

  25. Baby Blue, Yellow, Orange

    in Marble I.D.'s

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    My grandfather, and great-grandfather for that matter, lived in St Marys, WV. Pretty much all their lives. They come from a long line of Williams and such. As a sidebar, my great-grandfather had a photography studio on a riverboat - but eventually parked it in St Marys on the Ohio.

    My father lived in St. Marys all his life until he went to WVU and then off to WWII.

    Since these marbles came from my grandparent's home in St Marys, I am pretty sure most were collected prior to my father's adulthood (born in 1917, off to college in the 1930s).

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