Steph Posted July 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 4 hours ago, J_Ding said: Thought I'd share this Cloudy Sparkler. You know, fireworks in glass. Wow - I love the French Sparklers, but that Akro is something else! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 Thanks for the comment Richard! Here is another one, that took up most of my afternoon...which ain't nothing to give up when it comes to marbles. In hand the marble appears mostly opaque, but back lit, is another different thing entirely. I've struggled to figure out a way to image this properly, especially back lit, which usually does a poor job of surface features but is critical for a peak inside. This has been one of many favorite Akros for some time, and now I think these photos do an adequate job in communicating the features of this mib. For the sake of pure entertainment and obscurantist marble trivia, I'd call this a orange based, black ghost ribbon snake (cork). What else would it be? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 41 minutes ago, J_Ding said: . . . orange based, black ghost ribbon snake (cork). What else would it be? Sounds good to me. But then you know me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 On July 8, 2016 at 3:33 PM, ann said: Sounds good to me. But then you know me. I do. The pressure was on! Glad the name passed muster....be sure to include it on your forthcoming monograph on snakes, augers and onyx Akro marbles. I want a signed copy! (full disclosure, this references a long ago thread between myself and Ann on these forms) John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 On 7/4/2016 at 0:29 AM, J_Ding said: Great photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 Great photos John - the backlighting shows the structure beautifully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 Thanks! I appreciate that. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 Oh nose! It disappeared. (Can others still see it? ... I hope it's just me.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted July 9, 2016 Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 2 hours ago, Steph said: Oh nose! It disappeared. (Can others still see it? ... I hope it's just me.) Oh man! Am I a Klutz sometimes. All back! Sorry!John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2016 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *happy sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 A lavender and yellow cork...or, a kind of lavender anyway. I recently made the happy mistake of going to wiki to see an example of lavender. Wow, did I get some examples, and a good analysis and history of the color. Many kinds of lavender apparently. Different lavenders moving from dark to light, purple to almost brown/gray, light purple blues and all sorts of cool names and everything. Apparently this one has a variety of lavenders in the ribbon: lavender blush, lavender gray is there, and maybe others, and my personal favorite match, languid lavender. (!) I guess I'll call this my languid corkscrew from now on. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted July 23, 2016 Report Share Posted July 23, 2016 New cork: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted July 23, 2016 Report Share Posted July 23, 2016 Nice snake/auger up there Richard! I can't get enough of those....minty fresh too! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted July 23, 2016 Report Share Posted July 23, 2016 7 hours ago, J_Ding said: Nice snake/auger up there Richard! I can't get enough of those....minty fresh too! John Thanks - I struck lucky with this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted July 29, 2016 Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 So I lost my hard drive the other day to basic aging issues--crammed as it was with thousands of marble pictures and the detritus of work. Lost a fair amount of photos not yet cropped, although much of my edited mib files were backed up more recently. Still, I lost fair amount. I'm trying to see this philosophically: So now I have another another chance to get better images, improve on lighting, and relearn and re-experience marbles. Good thing marbles are physical media is all I can say; there they sit, ready for another round. I don't mind either, or I'm trying to convince myself so, and but it wouldn't much matter if I did anyway...lost is lost. So today a new reshoot of this oxblood cork I hadn't shared previously. john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted July 29, 2016 Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 Lovely marble and photo John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted July 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2016 I still have a hole in my life from the time that I destroyed my back-up disk with my S & T folders on it -- from ten years ago -- when I had to back-up on multiple DVD's. I'm sure I have most of whatever was lost. But I still wonder. I'm stalling trying to think of a good adjective for that. So far the best adjective I can think of is "indescribable". VERY interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco005 Posted August 6, 2016 Report Share Posted August 6, 2016 That Oxblood cork with the contrasting white cork is amazing. and those light eyelashes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 There are some nice Akros showing up here! I just picked these 2 color snakes up. They are the more common color combo, but still the 2 colored ones don't come along all that often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 Nice finds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted August 9, 2016 Report Share Posted August 9, 2016 That minty blue snake/spiral Cheese posted above Richard's post is interesting, I like those...you've found one more than I have... that waxiness of the ribbons in this color combination is distinctive. Just worked on these photos of this orange vaseline moss agate goodness. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted August 9, 2016 Report Share Posted August 9, 2016 Lovely John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Ding Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 Time for a vaseline slag. (I might have posted this before, but don't think so...if so, I guess you'll all have to suffer again, sorry!) John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManofKent Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 Lovely slag John, and I don't remember seeing it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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