Tuesday 7 January 2014

Focus on Life - Week 1

Happy New Year to you all!
I have dusted off the camera and decided to take up the weekly Focus on Life challenges over at the wonderful Studio Sublime this year.  My commitment wavered greatly last year, although I really enjoyed taking part.  Confidence, mojo, inspiration, call it what you will, seemed to completely abandon me and I've had great difficulty trying to get it back!
Anyway, here is my offering for week 1 - the subject is minimalist.
I love shells and this one looked empty so it came indoors to be added to my collection - until I found the occupant slithering across my computer desk, slightly traumatised but still in one piece!  



14 comments:

  1. Your little shell is so much better photographed than my little shell! A perfect picture! I hope he/she enjoyed their little adventures across your desk,

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  2. What a gorgeous photograph, the colours are lovely. And yes, I have done that before as well, collected what I thought was an empty shell.....

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  3. Happy New Year to you as well Diana! I hope it will be great for you. The shell is so sweet,,,I have a wee collection of favored sea shells from the Atlantic and Pacific~

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  4. What a beautiful shell..... how funny about the occupant!

    Happy New Year

    Karen x

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  5. Happy New Year! May it be full of inspiration and crafty mayhem :-)
    Shells are so appealing...I don't know if it's the simple spiral pattern or what. The snail was probably grateful for having been rescued from the deluge!!
    LLJ xx

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  6. So simple yet so beautiful. Hope to see more beautiful things from you in 2014. Happy New Year Diana x

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  7. Happy New Year to you too! Your photo is beautiful and that shell is really cool! At least you found the occupant still in one piece! I look forward to seeing more of your photos.

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  8. LOL love that you gave one of nature's creatures a new home, even if it was unexpected. Beautiful photo. Happy New Year!

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  9. Beautiful Diana. I like that I thought it to be something other than a shell like a button or a little handle. It's just wonderful. Happy new year. Good to see your creativity again. Please can you send some my way xx

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  10. Your shell is beautiful, Diana. And I so enjoyed browsing through other posts of yours. Gorgeous photograph! This is my first year with Focus on Life, and I think it's going to be a good thing for me. Thank you so much for visiting my blog, and for your kind words.

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  11. Cute story... sort of thing I would do Lovley picture.

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  12. Love the clarity of your photo. You elevated the shell to art.

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  13. Oh how funny! What a lovely, simple photo, and I'm so glad to see you back! I hope you enjoyed the Holidays, I'm struggling to get back to regular life and a 5 day workweek, and definitely haven't gotten my art mojo back, but I'm thinking about starting to try!

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  14. Ha! I love that your subject up and left after its glamour shot. Beautiful photo. I barely managed to get every photo in last year and this year if I miss a year, the world will still spin :) It's a great way to keep snapping photos

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