Bruce, when taking into account that this capture is taken behind glass, the glare is minimal and not distorting anyhow. Your capture visualize perfectly the essence of your subject matter.
Very interesting, because I could read the text of the 'Citrine' sign too.
I'm curious for your Colorado pictures, so let them come, Buddy, 😁 !

i think you managed great results. Wtg! tigs=^..^=

Having worked with specimens of this type for many years, Bruce, the subject of your excellent submission is one of the most unique exhibits I have seen. Ammonites lived from the late Paleozoic through the Mesozoic eras (approximately 400 to 65 mya). They were likely a little less populous in the oceans during the age of the mosasaurs, the aquatic "t. Rex of the Sea" that found ammonites to be quite tasty. Mosasaurs have only been found in rocks of late Cretaceous age (between about 100 and 65 million years ago), and most ammonites died out at the same time as the non-avian dinosaurs, large dinos like triceratops and t. Rex, as well as large aquatic dinosaurs like the mosasaur, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 65 million years ago. In the linked image here, an ammonite can be seen swimming in the upper left (and another in the distant upper right) and a mosasaur is the largest critter in the scene, about to snag a fish (that long toothy fish in the far upper left, that looks a bit like a living submarine, is Xiphactinus [Zi-fak-tin-us], whose entire mouth was hinged to allow it to eat fish almost as large as itself!) For scale, these ammonite were about the size of a family-size pizza, and the mosasaur grew to about 25-30 feet long (this is a young one). These sea "monsters" grew quite large at that time.

-nik

Ya know, this image just popped up and, despite having already commented on it, what I immediately saw, of the combination of the two ammonites and the steel rectangles of the support base, I see two huge owl eyes and a flat, rectangular nose and identical open mouth. Funny.

-nik