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Mineral PhotographyPOTD August 2, 2018 What are the other minerals?
2nd Aug 2018 16:55 UTCKeith Wood
The black matrix on which the crystals sit is clearly crystalline, and should be identified.
There are acicular white(?) crystals growing on, or emerging from, the black mineral.
There is a small cluster of green crystals to the right of the large chrysocolla ball.
There is a tuft of white-ish crystals beneath one of the azurite crystals that may be different than the other acicular crystals, of which most have formed singly.
I realize the POTD is selected for many reasons, but it seems that qualifying pictures should have more complete descriptions than this. It happens often. It is a very nice photo, visibly interesting to be sure, and maybe that is reason enough to use it, but when I look at the description, it is very unsatisfying to find so little information.
3rd Aug 2018 03:39 UTCDoug Daniels
3rd Aug 2018 04:20 UTCKeith Wood
I am suggesting that maybe POTDs should have a higher standard.
No need for attitude. We are all friends here. Relax.
3rd Aug 2018 04:44 UTCDoug Daniels
3rd Aug 2018 14:49 UTCKeith Wood
Yeah, I have read posts on how POTDs are selected: Not with a set of exacting criteria - must have this, must have that. We would not have many photos to choose from, as you say. But that is because the POTD has many shoes to fill. It is the frontispiece of the site, the first thing people see, and we want that to be interesting to draw people in. Yesterday's picture was well selected for that. But lots of us who use this site (and support it monetarily) know more about mineralogy and would like to see a little more.
Maybe one thing could be to run the POTD selection by an expert on that area and try to get some details filled in before fronting it. A bit more work for the managers, who already have plenty to do, and I'm not suggesting they do it every time. But sometimes it would be nice to have more complete information.
4th Aug 2018 05:16 UTCDoug Daniels
4th Aug 2018 05:47 UTCKeith Wood
4th Aug 2018 06:40 UTCDoug Daniels
5th Aug 2018 11:35 UTCDebbie Woolf Manager
I do feel standards have improved. Looking back over the past six weeks there's only three photos without a description of some sort, we used to get that weekly :-) Sometimes it's a mistake other times it's not.
It's a privilege to chose POTD regardless of where in the world or my lack of knowledge, as long as it fits most of the criteria - I hope it stays that way.
5th Aug 2018 12:56 UTCKevin Hean
5th Aug 2018 13:15 UTCDebbie Woolf Manager
5th Aug 2018 15:05 UTCDon Swenson
5th Aug 2018 15:36 UTCKeith Wood
Don: Funny, I misread your post "metamorphicly speaking"
5th Aug 2018 19:38 UTCVolker Betz 🌟 Expert
There was a time a picture was nothing, only words!
Lucky this times changed.
This is a good picture ! I does not need many words.
Except for those wo cannot read pictures, only words.
Volker
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