Here are a couple shots of flakes of penzance from my jar. Bought from the B&M in Oct '08.
Both of these are just the flakes laying on my desk with my desk lamp over the top of them. No editing of either other then to resize the pic.
1st one is with just regular indoor light flash on a 5mp sony cybershot camera. Still looks alot darker with alot less lighter streaking then the one MFM posted:
Second one, one more shot, no flash. Pretty much looks just like it does to the eye laying there on my desk. MUCH darker!
Very interesting! Perhaps that tin is fairly young? I know the B&M had the bulk bag that mine was from open for quite some time in a jar on the counter (months). And this sample I have had at my house for the last 4.