Collections

After all the photo opportunities I had in NZ I seem to have lost my photo mojo. However, I was rather pleased with this paua shell which I found on the beach one day. They are rather prized and indeed sold in the shops. They are used extensively in jewellery and also for making cultured blue pearls. The other shells and stones are all ones I collected in NZ. Does anyone else have a similar habit?

[Paul "Snapchap" Everest]

Very nice. I collect small bits of sand abraded glass from the shoreline whenever I hit a beach.

[👑 AnaZad]

Very nice composition with these nice shells

[Judith Johnson]

@steampowered So that's where all the sea glass got to! I collect that too - probably started after I read Anita Shreve's novel, Sea Glass.

[Ruby]

Lovely composition

[Alison Tomlin]

Very pretty colours and patterns. Not surprised you/re not feeling the same level of enthusiasm as when you were in the mountains !

[🐓 Patricia Fletcher]

Beautiful Judith! And yes, i share your habit! Pick up stones with holes in them, with quartz seams in them, sea glass, pottery . . . .

[Keith Porteous]

lovely capture, beautiful

[Sarah Munnings]

I always pick a shell or two up and add them to an ornamental glass bowl as a memory

[Gerry]

I was thinking Judith shell or shall i give you a Fav i thought yes beautiful capture

[Boxplayer]

Beautiful irridescent thing.

[Myrna O'Hara]

Well composed. I like the framing and background too.

[Tony]

Wonderful array of interesting items, must have added significant weight to the luggage. Love the composition and the random arrangement.

[Judith Greenwood]

Yes we have odd collections on windowsills - but yours is a very pretty group indeed.

[Nicola Eastwood]

Little D and I are relentless in our stone collecting - they are all over the house in dishes on windowsills and we often write on them with a gold pen if they hold a memory of a special day at the beach. I have a jar of shells I collected when we did some diving one year off Cayman. It was a miracle that I could swim I had so many stashed about my person!! :0) Will photograph mine too - what a lovely idea - thank you!

[carol white]

A lovely collection,especially the paua shell !!

[Shawn Kenwright]

Judith, looking at your picture makes me homesick. These things where all past of my childhood, growing up at the beach in NZ. Best childhood ever, we where hardly ever home always off down the beach, in the bush on the farm out the back or around the rocks, chasing crabs and other critters in rock pools. Thanks for the memories.