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    Home»Arts & Entertainment»Today’s Photo from Ted Grussing Photography: The Process
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    Today’s Photo from Ted Grussing Photography: The Process

    By Ted Grussing
    June 13, 2023No Comments
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    … a change of pace today with the day spent creating a piece of jewelry from scratch for a friend … the photo above shows the nearly completed opal in black jade pendant … just a little cleanup to do and then it is finished. So I had the design floating around in my mind and today I finally put it into a real piece of fine neck wear.

    The photo next below shows the large piece of Wyoming black jade that I started with. Black jade isn’t really black, it is a highly over saturated green jade and the trimmings all come out s muddy green. Below that shot is the piece I trimmed off of the large piece and which is the approximate size of the finished piece of jewelry.

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    Next it was time to give it an approximate shape of what I was thinking about and the next photo shows the roughed out piece … I had decided to carve the bale of the pendant and the keel looking thing is the roughed out bale (what the chain goes through. Below that is a photo of me piercing it with a 2mm bit to begin the process of carving the bale. and the last photo below shows the roughed out pendant . Still to go, the cleanup, final shaping and setting the opal which happens to be high quality gem opal from the Mintabe opal fields in Australia.

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    Back on the cliff in about 6 hours so this is a wrap … have a beautiful day and enjoy life and all whom you meet, today and always!

    Cheers,

    Sedona Gift Shop

    Ted

    Filled with dreams and songs and love, I wander
    afield.

    Meditation, softened by the peaceful lands of grain and
    the illimitable blue sea overhead, draws my heart to
    my lips as one whose talent is in song.

    I yield to the thousand felicities of this transport, like a
    child led by his father’s hand; and no questions darken
    this day of my content.

    Afield by Max Ehrmann

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    photo_tedgrussingThe easiest way to reach Mr. Grussing is by email: ted@tedgrussing.com

    In addition to sales of photographs already taken Ted does special shoots for patrons on request and also does air-to-air photography for those who want photographs of their airplanes in flight. All special photographic sessions are billed on an hourly basis.

    Ted also does one-on-one workshops for those interested in learning the techniques he uses.  By special arrangement Ted will do one-on-one aerial photography workshops which will include actual photo sessions in the air.

    More about Ted Grussing …

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