Amethyst

Semiprecious stone

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On a road trip through Brazil

We had decided to stop in a small town for the night and took a walk around to see what we could find. We found a little shop that was filled with Amethyst of all shapes and sizes. The shop owner told us that all the rocks come from a mine in the north or Uruguay and are transported by trucks into Brazil, where they are broken open and polished to be sold.

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Amathyst shop in Brazil

![IMG_0651.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmf3j5gGaLgMrAAQjnErUGBDt9PJxSqyDY45pg5PF6uSd6/IMG_0651.JPG) ![IMG_0659.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmNw4jcMBVErU2vpq12zdQBDvPnQL1oxxJt2hDZmb38BGE/IMG_0659.JPG)

Macro Photography contest entry

This macro was created by focus stacking. "Focus stacking is a digital image processing technique which combines multiple images taken at different focus distances to give a resulting image with a greater depth of field than any of the individual source images."

This was my first attempt at this technique. The resulting image did not turn out the way i hoped and the image did need some heavy cropping. ![Untitled_Panorama2.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeXrxeLW6FPyf4tEeozEvY8deTxfjim7zQ8igPwE3gvmU/Untitled_Panorama2.jpg) ***

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^{Attributions:
All photographs are taken by @marco42
wikipedia reference (focus stcking)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_stacking]
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