Marshall Ketchum asks Rande Bly about his article on the color smoke:
Rande

In your photos of the 6030 is the background really pink as it appears on my monitor? I can’t tell anything about how the glass color is supposed to look.

Rande responds:

Hi Marshall
It is true the photos background is slightly too pink. The last photo #7 is the least pink. If I rise up slightly from my chair and view my screen from a higher angle all of the pink disappears. Then the color of the glass can be viewed in the shot of the bottom of the vase and in the last photo. To me this color was a flesh colored Rosa and when viewed from the side through the base was a very light brown with a root beer tinge. Even staring at this piece in person I find t nearly impossible to describe the color? Marshall maybe we can get someone to send in some more photos. I will send two of David’s pictures. I will forward this to Alan so he can post the pictures.

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http://www.kddk.com/alans/DSCN0165.JPG

Randy adds the following on these above images.

These are two of David Chadwick Brown’s photos and the parfait is quite accurate. He will not mind me sharing them. The glass will also take on the color of the French Blue decorated piece as it seems to carry slight dichromatic properties. Smoke can often be found decorated with French Blue. The glass does change colors slightly and so far no photograph has ever shown exactly what I see by eye.