James,

In my experience putty, or similar stuff, would indeed leave a residue on
the shells. Better is trying to use a fine grained, preferably dark coloured
sand (glauconite !), on which you can position your specimens easily in any
desired position and there will be no contamination on the specimen !

Arie W. Janssen, Gozo, Malta
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From: "James Cheshire" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 10:19 PM
Subject: [CONCH-L] photography mounting


>I am wondering about the best way to hold small shells in place for
> macro photography. Adhesive putty seems like an ideal choice, but I'm
> not sure if this would leave a residue on shells. What are your
> thoughts?
>
> James
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