Sometimes, a photo memory comes up, whether that be on Facebook, Google Photos, or something else, and you go - Mmm. That’s nice. Sometimes you think, I should retake the photo as I can do better.
In this instance, it was the latter. But… I no longer have the specimen!
This photo was taken in 2012, and is a single shot, no stacking. It has a look of a scanned 35mm slide, that slight grainy-ness.
Below: Pyromorphite, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Width of view 5mm.
I'd have been happy to make a photo like that in 2012.