I had some time to take pictures today early enough in the afternoon so that the light seemed to contrain the full spectrum and didn't have the yellows etc. filtered out of it by the atmosphere. Here are the results with the second black abalone mabe'. I know--It looks too brilliant--but that's what it's like. The mabe's from the red and pink abalone can be even more saturated, though.
Marc
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