Zambian Amethyst Gem Rough 49.95 ct Anonymous donation to the Green Gem Foundation. 22.0 x 17.3 x 15.1 mm 49.95 ct Medium Color, blocky. Seems to be very clean in main body of stone. Green Gem Foundation Showcase Gem Rough – Available For Sale as Rough or for Green Gem faceting Donation ...
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Wishing you a joyous holiday filled with tradition. New and Old! -The Green Gem Foundation ...
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Afghanistan Tourmaline Crystal 38.85 ct Wintermint Gemstone Rough Beautiful sample of some of the best Afghan Tourmaline. 38.85 ct 22.7 x 12.5 x 12.3 mm
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Afghanistan Tourmaline Crystal 57.45 ct Wintermint Gemstone Rough Beautiful sample of some of the best Afghan Tourmaline. 57.45 ct 32.1 x 14.2 x 12.3 mm
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Holy Bat Halloween Montage by Jeffrey Hunt Special Halloween Montage for Robyn Hawk: The Daily Jewel and Robyn Hawk, A Fly on The Wall – Facebook Gemstone is by Jean-Noel Soni. Details can be found here: Mali Garnet feature on One World Gemstone ...
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Afghanistan Sea Foam Blue Green Tourmaline Rough weighing in at 66.70 cts. Going on the dop today.
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King Stag – Sri Lanka Zircon 5.25 ct Experimental Pear Design inspired by Carlo Gozzi Faceted and Designed by Jeffrey Hunt I ran across this gem in storage recently. King Stag represents my very first original design. The shape and display in zircon is quite beautiful, subsequent test cut in garnet a bit dark – but sill quite pleasing. The design is unusual in that the...
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Elaine Songer’s Opal Moon for Robyn Hawk I remember last year around Halloween Robyn loved my Something Wicked Halloween photo. With that in mind, I took liberties with Elaine Songer’s Opal and created this digital montage for Robyn to celebrate Halloween 2010. The work also marks the very successful completion of eye surgery for Elaine! Congratulations both for wonderful work in the...
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An interesting Tanzania Opal with a matrix backing displaying a pseudo cat-eye effect. This gem will be fashioned into a cabochon by Elaine Songer. ...
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Glamour Shot The Product Shot or Knockout Shot Reduced Scale A third gemstone photography convention in this growing list to consider are photos that utilize Reduced Scale. In the process of photographing and publishing on the web it is relatively easy to reproduce large or small photos of gemstones. If the quality of the file is low the gems must remain small when produced online, and the...
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Small Madagascar Garnet cut in my Poinsettia Design. This design was published December 2007 in Jewelry Artist magazine as an alternative Holiday Cut. It’s performs quite well in lighter material and is definitely a mixed cut.
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Diffusion Media Quite often while shooting gemstones the resulting light reflection will give a burned or very hot look to the stone and will produce overexposed facets in the photograph. I find this happens a bit more on lighter gems as opposed to dark ones but with light or dark stones I use almost exclusively some type of diffusion media on each and every one of my shots. Color is King in...
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There are many photography conventions when shooting gemstones. I find the best approach is to portray an honest straightforward rendition of the stone. There are many successful ways to capture an image of a gemstone and a multitude of approaches by successful photographers. The biggest challenge I find is how to show a static image of an object that is best viewed through movement in real...
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Singida Zircon 35.75 ct Singida Zircon 35.25 ct Singida Zircon 36.75 ct Singida Zircon 29.35 ct Selection of Singida Zircon from Tanzania ...
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