Jewelry assignment

I'm in another class with Carol Leigh -- the assignment I just completed in the macro photography class is "jewelry".   I guess I need challenges, so decided to photograph these acrylic beads!   Jumping right into the assignment, I didn't read Carol's notes about the importance of cleaning jewelry (actually probably anything) before pointing the macro lens at it.   The first round of photos I took were full of dust spots!   Not just a few, but major dust spots.

Back to the drawing board, or actually the kitchen sink.  Washed, dried & polished both the hand and the beads, and was happy with these two photos.   Thanks Linda H. for the idea of using one of my glass hands in the photo.