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I'm not making a moralistic judgement, its like asking if medical testing is okay or not, its a case by case kind of thing. I just thought the dissolving aspect hadn't come up at all. If it's known to be badly corrosive, and the stone something needing pointed out for posterity, a bad pic and a planned return trip might be better.

I do wonder now if pictures with gorgeous golden toned highlights might be rockart I'd want to avoid touching now though.... :-/

Woad of course colours up beautifully with urine so I've read though I have never tried it, so given the fact that woad colouring was used in the iron age, the use of urine must have had a long history - partly as a mordant and partly when wool is oxidised in the air to turn from green to blue. How they made it into a paste never quite worked that out.....