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| Best of Photographers |
John BETTS
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John Betts has been a mineral dealer since 1989 and is frequently seen at major mineral shows in the United States. Mr. Betts web site,
wwww.johnbetts-fineminerals.com was one of the first mineral dealers on the
Internet. When he is not working on shipping minerals around the world, he is
out in the field, collecting minerals at new localities or trying to
rediscover lost mineral localities.
Mr. Betts formerly worked full time as design director for Henry Dreyfuss
Associates in New York City, one of the oldest industrial designs firm in the
USA. His work has received recognition from many worldwide publications.
Business Week magazine featured Mr. Betts in an article about his
award-winning design for the Polaroid Vision camera. In June 1991, the
Japanese design magazine Fusion Planning selected Mr. Betts for their list of
the top 50 designers in the USA. Mr. Betts holds over 75 domestic and
international design patents.
In December 2000, Mr. Betts resigned his position as design director to
devote his full time and energy to selling minerals on the Internet. His
training as a designer guides him as he selects aesthetic minerals from
sources around the world.
Mr. Betts has also authored many articles in the earth sciences. His article
"Quarries and Minerals of the Dayton Rd. District, South Glastonbury, CT."
won the 1996 George F. Kunz award for best article on New York regional
mineralogy. This article was published in Rocks & Minerals magazine
March-April 1999 issue. Another article, "Anthony's Nose, New York: Three
Mineral Localities" was recently published in Matrix magazine and won the
1997 George F. Kunz award. His most recent contribution to mineral
enthusiasts, the article "Digital Mineral Photography" (Rocks & Minerals
Magazine, March-April 2001), is a point-by-point tutorial on using digital
cameras to photograph mineral specimens.
His contributions and willingness to share with other mineral collectors are
evident in his web site where two-thirds of the content is education
articles, field collecting locations or mineral photographs. As a result, Mr.
Betts' web site was voted by mineralcollecting.org as the most diverse
mineral website on the Internet with, "richly varying mineralogy / geology
content that is always fresh and up-to-date and perpetually useful to
others."
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