"Surface of the moon," cubic Calcite in background appearing as giant icebergs - February 1997. [Reminiscent of Jack Kirby-esque lunar rocks. - ed.]

This color contact sheet is presented to show provenance of blog host's work with time exposure photography of crystals and gems. [Numbers appear upside down due to small error from Walgreens photo lab - ed.]

"Orange and lime" - These two pyramidal structures are underlit by LCD lasers and fiberoptics. Composition is Chinese Flourite. These images form a composite of two separately taken photos.

"Crystal Quad." Multiple time exposures utilizing optical cameras, tripods, cable release, and mirror lock-up. Subject: large quartz crystal and fiberoptics.

"Rocket Prism" - Chinese fluorite columnar crystal with internal ghost inclusion.

"Blue Meteorite" - All pictures (including the above) photographed utilizing optical cameras; non-computer generated images taken with fiberoptics, LCD lasers, and time-lapse photography.

"Turquoise Moon Beams"

"Laser Trigonal"

"Pink Crystal" - Large quartz crystal.

"Crystal Rain" - Fluorite Heptagon.

"Deep Crystal Immersion" - Multiple color filtration, utilized to penetrate internal crystal inclusions.

"Three Little Diamonds" - Octahedral Fluorite crystals.

"Rainbow Columnar Crystals"

"Fluorite Tranquility"

"Blue Cube From Space"

"Fire and ice"