Grey Heart
Perhaps one of my favorite finds. This still life seems perfect to me: the hues of the pebbles are perfect with one another, the swoop of the lines on the shell are delicate, and the shell is perfectly in alignment. … Continue reading
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Lost Jewelry, or Found Jewel
As perfectly formed as if by a jeweler, this small piece of clam shell looks like filigree. We did pick it up after photographing, and it will be made into a necklace.
Complementary in Many Ways
The placement of the shells, but even more so the colors of these shells make them complementary. The orange of the jingle shell beside the blue of the mussel would almost be directly across from one another on a color … Continue reading
Old Shell, Fresh Water
An odd assemblage of flotsam becomes beautiful when washed by the tide.
Peach Erosion
Tumbled by the sea, this moon shell has been polished by the glassy sand to a peachy spiral. Together, out of the water, the quartz sand and shell create a lovely still life. The tiny, white clam makes the peach … Continue reading
“Pied Beauty”: For My Brothers
Pied Beauty By Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – … Continue reading
Peering Out to Sea
This carapace, brilliant fall colors on the monochromatic tideline, was situated as if the creature had died looking out to sea.
Simple Elegance
Walk the beach with a friend someday, a friend who is unfamiliar with your tide line, the local marine life, common shells. Look at what is at your feet through his or her eyes, their perspective, and be amazed. Thanks, … Continue reading
Branching Out
The simplicity of this still life is what captivated me. The ‘branches’ were some sort of transparent marine plant, and they blended into the wet sand. Their almost invisible delicacy, and their placement with the salp and the other minute … Continue reading
One Year Later: Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean
October 2012: Superstorm Sandy October 2013: The ocean continues to return bits of what it stole last year. This piece of boardwalk was washed up on to the tide line this month in a nor’easter. The one year anniversary coverage … Continue reading
Tide Line Still Life 