Image information
Where the photographs on this site come from, and how they were edited.
Simien Mountains
Photograph by Dave Watts. Original photograph · CC BY 2.0. Cropped, resized and compressed for this website.
On the home page the photograph is animated in your browser: thin cloud crosses the sky, mist moves through the valleys and cloud shadows pass over the slope. The mountains themselves are not changed. With reduced motion, or when you press Pause, the photograph stays still.
Rough opal
Photographs and videos supplied by Maedot, October 2026.
Photographed dry. The background was replaced with a generated black cloth, and one brightness and contrast adjustment was applied to the whole photograph. The stones were not retouched, sharpened or recoloured.
- Rough opal — parcel
- Rough opal — two stones
- Rough opal — group
A still frame from Maedot's own video, cropped and resized only. The stones were not retouched, sharpened or recoloured, and the background is as filmed.
- Rough opal — held piece, wet
- Rough opal — group, wet
- Rough opal — two faces, dry