This is beautiful!

Glad you like it, and thanks for the fave!

No problem! It reminds me of the Greek laurel heandband or something similar.

If you get the chance, you should take a better shot of this one and change the submission file. It's gorgeous, and I'd love to see it more clearly!

Ah, I would love to, but I'm afraid it went to another country some time ago. I know the photography sucks - I was still discovering stuff like 'dynamic range' at the time. I should probably work on a new torc or two in the near future.

*nods* I have a few pieces I'd love to re-make and re-shoot myself. I still haven't got the hang of photographing my work.

The three most important things I've learned since photographing this are:
-Use bright diffuse light with the camera itself in shadow
-Use a neutral background in a mid grey tone to prevent overstretching dynamic range
-Use a tripod

*nods* I've been doing the last one, and I haven't taken any shots worth looking at since I figured out how to do the first. As for the neutral background, I actually try to go for something black but there may be entirely too much contrast with that. Sound advice, I'm looking forward to getting my paws on a camera that isn't built in to my phone again so I can try it all out. Anodized titanium has proven very very tricky to photograph well, but I have high hopes for a combination of good diffuse light and no flash on the camera. Some friends took a few excellent shots in Carlsbad Caverns last weekend with the 'candlelight' setting on their camera, I want to give that a try.