Author Archives: RP Birt

Chinese 19th century Carved Jade Lock

Photographing jade is always a challenge. It is difficult to capture the ‘life’ that is there. Normally, I wouldn’t include my fingers in a shoot… but with this piece it was easier to tilt the object than the camera. I had originally photographed this 19th century Nephrite Chinese lock for PrivateCollection’s 07-04-11 blog but I [...]
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Chinese Silver Lapis Buddha Ring

sometimes there is a piece that has surprises… this was definitely one of them!  
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Chinese Smoky Quartz Badger

I spent a lot of time with this badger…. he was very elusive and at first did not want to be photographed on a dark background … but he had so much character and like the jade monkey, he had a way of looking into the camera … so I stayed with it and finally [...]
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Chinese Dragon Jewelry

what i am loving about lightbox is how it scales… i think it is important for viewing on a notebook computer … especially the wide screen 13"-15" where the screen height in a browser can be very constricted… dragons…
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Changing Direction

It seems that My 19" Universe has become my PhotoBlog… a place to share some of the images that are special to me… as I spend more and more of my time with the photography…
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Chinese Jewelry in Waiting

just the gang waiting around for their turn… while the boys are mugging the camera….
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