{"id":657,"date":"2013-02-19T16:46:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T16:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/?p=657"},"modified":"2013-02-19T16:58:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T16:58:33","slug":"657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"sun and research"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been sunny.<\/p>\n\"IMG_1755\"<\/a>
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I went to the Grant Institute to visit my Dad and also to meet with Gillian McCay who is the curator of the Cockburn Geological Museum. Patterns in rocks are not a new subject matter for me, but I have always worked from other people’s source material- in textbooks or from photographs of old posters (see below)
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Lazurite, white horses on waves or gull flocks?<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Grant Institute offers an amazing opportunity for me to be able to do my own first hand research and photography of thin sections. A little of which I did yesterday, playing around with the microscope and camera; using it exactly like I was not in any way a scientist.<\/p>\n\"IMG_1780\"\"IMG_1787\"\"IMG_1786\"<\/a>\n\"IMG_1784\"<\/a>\n

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I am looking forward to planning more considered research, especially with the new projects for this summer which are in the works. In the works, to be confirmed – end of Febuary. Luckily I’m off to\u00a0Marrakech on Thursday, two more shifts at work and then go. No time to worry, just enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been sunny. I went to the Grant Institute to visit my Dad and also to meet with Gillian McCay who is the curator of the Cockburn Geological Museum. Patterns in rocks are not a new subject matter for me, but I have always worked from other people’s source material- in textbooks or from photographs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-findings","category-home","category-photography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.morvernodling.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}