one of the things I like about photography is being able to combine my passions, for example I enjoy exploring, I combine that with landscape photography, I enjoy fossicking, again I combine it with my landscape photography.
one of my first hobbies as a teenager was collecting quartz specimens from around the Bathurst region, at first I would just accept any bit I could find flawed, fractured or just microscopic (and still do to a lesser extent).
over the years since I have learned a bit in keeping a minor collection of mineral specimens, much to my parents chagrin
and I will admit I have made incredibly stupid decisions when trading specimens and listening to bad advice when it came to my other hobby, Lapidary.
gradually I have improved on my Lapidary skills and my mineral collection has not suffered as one smokey quartz specimen for shooters hill quarry did ( I kick myself when ever I see it, specially when Warren Somerville of the Somerville collection fame said for a quartz specimen It is good)
I have a long way to go before I am able to say I am a professional mineral photographer. but I will get there eventually.
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