Two geoscience students had photographic images of minerals published in the Acadia Arts magazine “Estuary”. MSc student Amanda Smith’s colourful photomicrograph of talc as viewed through a petrographic microscope with crossed polars graced the cover of the issue. BSc honours student Monet Streit’s photomicrograph of a clastic sedimentary rock entitled “What makes the sidewalks sparkle” appears on page10.