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Messing with UV photography, spouse helped with the setup but definitely running into some challenges (namely that dust is almost impossible to totally remove, UV beam is a little small for some specimens). It is cool to get photos of it more successfully though. Here's a few examples with only a bit of editing in the camera raw settings so far:

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Haüyne On Fassaite displaying fluorescence

Locality: Biachella Valley, Sacrofano, Rome Province, Lazio, Italy

375 nm (Longwave) UV Light

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While working on some longwave UV photography, we figured out how to get longer exposures (like 1-2 minutes) with our camera to offset how weak my shortwave light is (hopefully a new one eventually but they're a lot more expensive than LW). So here's a couple of fun examples of how different a rock/mineral can look under different types of lighting!