General Discussion & Chat: What do you like to Collect?, 1 by snakeadelic

snakeadelic wrote:
I have mild OCD as part of my personal suite of life challenges, and an inner child that isn't a child--it's half magpie and half packrat! Things I collect avidly include:

seashells, the smaller the better (think my smallest is about 2.5 mm long)

small stones, particularly semi-precious, tumbled or not

toy snakes

live snakes (down to 2 now from all-time high of 12)

weird stuffed animals

Magic: the Gathering cards (I have the shiny version of "Thieving Magpie" in 2 different versions, thankee kindly, and actually own the original art to my alltime favorite card)

And, of great importance for the last year and a half, I collect digital photographic images! I had to stop sculpting miniature animals out of polymer clay because of as-yet-undiagnosed neurological problems in my hands, and turned on a whim to digital photography. Talk about your runaway trains...I have a store online, a photo archive bigger than the hard drive on my tower (bought a 500-gig external hd because I had to!), a factory-refurbished Canon, and an image count since 4-18-09 that is about to top 70,000. I mostly photograph birds, scenery, and tiny things--the macro on my camera is stunning, which gives me an excuse to buy the occasional handful of pretty rocks or shells while on my rare tourist jaunts to the west coast from sw Montana. Shown below is a single feather, by the shape size & color most likely from the head of an American goldfinch, that was stuck to the window of my mom's place in Oregon last month when I visited. Actual size of the feather was about 4 mm at the widest.