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The inside of a large clam laid up against a tree with a few grass blades in front. Ok, I did not have a beach for backdrop ;)
This is a brooch which was hand painted by a Russian artist on a piece of shell. Anyone who knows me won't be surprised to know that I have more than one. The brooch is resting on a hand painted miniature bench which, in turn, is standing in front of a piece of painted paper I bought in a batch from an artist who called the scraps 'by-products' of her abstract work. Sometimes I think I should be able to paint something like that myself, but I know with 100% certainty that it wouldn't look as good. :)
For this week's Smile on Saturday group theme, Paint(ed).
I have long wanted a half cut nautilus shell but have resisted the temptation until now, when I realised that many online shops have stopped selling them because of concerns about the species being under threat, though not yet listed as endangered. I did make sure that I bought from a supplier which states that it only buys from approved sources.
Having survived relatively unchanged for millions of years, nautilus are often considered to be "living fossils”, indeed ammonites are a related extinct species.
When seen from the top, the natural shell is darker in colour and marked with irregular stripes, which makes it blend into the darkness of the water below. Conversely, the underside is almost completely white, making it indistinguishable from brighter waters near the ocean’s surface. Whilst the shells frequent waters around 300m below the surface, the shell is capable of withstanding pressures down to 500m.
As the nautilus matures its body moves forward, sealing the chamber behind it. The last fully open chamber being used as the living chamber.
I'm not happy with the lighting in this shot - the shell is much more beautiful in reality.
118 pictures in 2018 (38) from the sea
and shot 67/100 for my Lensbaby project
Smile on Saturday 'white on white' theme.
Door lock decorated with simple Arabesque work of carnation inlaid with mother-of-pearl, Ottoman, 13th century
Hj, 19th century a.D.
Alexandria
terbana
Waqf
I seem to have spent much of my adult life collecting things. Someone once said to me 'Two's a pair, three's a collection' and it appears that's true where I'm concerned. This is a brooch from Russia that has been hand-painted on mother of pearl. I have quite a few of them. I dare say they're churned out in large numbers, but every one is unique because it's been painted by hand and that's what I like about them. Plus, they're miniatures, of course.
For this week's Smile on Saturday group theme, Blue for you - ME 2020, to highlight ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Awareness Day on 12 May.
Macro Mondays theme Brands and Logos
Beautiful mother of pearl buttons on a vintage Yves Saint Laurent suit.
[Each button measures around 1cm in diameter]
HMM...
Wowzer, what a treat this evening, rare Polar Stratospheric Cloud (Nacreous Clouds) courtesy of storm Henry....the sky turned an incredible colour and when I went out to look, this is what I saw. Photo doesn't do it justice I'm afraid.
Canon EOS 6D - f/5.6 - 1/100sec - 100mm - ISO 640
- this a (second) lid of an antique 19th century mother of pearl tea caddy (see picture in the first comment)
- of course the knob is not really hovering, but i seems to because it is not tightly attached to the mother of pearl
Lappland Sweden
Polar stratospheric clouds or PSCs, also known as nacreous clouds (/ˈneɪkriː.əs/, from nacre, or mother of pearl, due to its iridescence), are clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 meters (49,000–82,000 ft). They are best observed during civil twilight when the sun is between 1 and 6 degrees below the horizon as well as in winter and in more northerly latitudes
Sweet Jane, she carried a Smith & Wesson .32 Long Colt. She had a dream. She played her part. She was never lonely. Sweet sweet Jane. She'd never break it.
Heavenly roses, they whisper to her. When she smiled la la la la, la la la
This was part of my Mother's manicure set, I don't know how it was used. The rest of the set has been lost long ago.
The Macro Mondays group has chosen Keepsake today.
I was inspired by the song Mother of Pearl by Roxy Music.
Two weddings and a family portrait session this weekend. Whoo!
Anyone from Rockford know of any industrial looking sites I could take pictures in front of near Henrietta and State?
Still kinda on hiatus?
Okaybai <3
Lyrics~~~
www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858544675/
Selection:
Oh lonely dreamer
Your choker provokes
A picture of cameo
Oh Mother of Pearl
So, so semiprecious
In your detached world
Oh Mother of Pearl I wouldn't trade you for another girl
The crown has not yet been grouted - TG will be
Going over the sparkles. I'm measuring at this point
As to where my design around the mirror will be placed beneath the crown.
Lappland Sweden
Polar stratospheric clouds or PSCs, also known as nacreous clouds (/ˈneɪkriː.əs/, from nacre, or mother of pearl, due to its iridescence), are clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 meters (49,000–82,000 ft). They are best observed during civil twilight when the sun is between 1 and 6 degrees below the horizon as well as in winter and in more northerly latitudes
Gold filled chain embellished with 4 tiny buttons from England, 2 of which are mother-of-pearl, and one large picture button with a butterfly among flowers.
For Macro Mondays "PushPull" theme. The white switch, which has a mother of pearl inlay, is pushed to turn the light on, The black button then pops up which can be pushed to turn the light off. The switch probably dates from the early 20th century.
HMM
It was made for me in Greece by Sakis.
It has 60 staves walnut back, Abalone, mother of pearl, ebony finger board, and it plays great.
The sun begins to break through the clouds, and the sky turns a luminous 'mother of pearl' silver. And the vastness of the sky really strikes me.
Sea Sand,Sky & Water set: Sea Sand,Sky and Water
My landscape set Landscape set
My drive by shots: Drive Bys!
Although not the most valuable object that I own, this is one of my most precious pieces. This is my Great Grandmother’s small Anglo-Indian jewellery box, which she brought back from India after she and my Grandfather finished a period in the diplomatic corps during the Raj just before the Great War. It is precious to me because it holds some of the most tangible memories I have of my Great Grandmother and my Grandmother. This sat on my Great Grandmother’s dressing table and housed some of her everyday jewellery. I remember visiting her and watching her take out her pearls and cameos and glittering rings when she was getting ready to receive visitors or to go out. Even when I hold it now or hear the rich sounds of the box lid as it closes, in my mind I can still smell her violet and lily of the valley perfumes and her cold cream. When she died, my Grandmother inherited it and it sat on her dressing table. When I hold it, I can hear her laugh as I played with the pearl necklaces, earrings and rings that she kept in there, including the Regency ebony and ivory earrings I called “Flora” and “Fauna”. The yellowing of the ivory is a sign of its advanced age, and its edges have been worn by many hands touching them over the last century: not least of all mine.
The theme for Smile on Saturday for the 15th of May is “full of memories”. The challenge was to search for something that brings back a certain memory, take a picture of it and share what memories it brings back for you. I have inherited so many items from my Grandparent’s estates that hold great sentimental value for me. The hard part for me about this challenge, was choosing one object out of the many. As I have used my Grandfather’s chess set several times before for other challenges in this group, I settled upon this beloved little jewellery box, which is full of memories.
The jewellery box itself is an Anglo-Indian (Indian made but designed for the British market who lived in India during the Raj) made in the 1890s. It is fashioned from ebony and rosewood with the most exquisite hand-made geometric marquetry inlay of ivory and mother of pearl. The detail photos show how intricate the geometric pattern is, and how perfectly each piece is fitted. This might impress you even more when you think that the box itself is ten and a half centimetres long, by six and half centimetres wide and four and a half centimetres deep. The ebony frames to the hexagons on the lid are one millimetre thick, the vertical rosewood bands on the ivory edge of the lid are half a millimetre in width, the smallest triangles on the sides each have sides of one millimetre in length and the triangles around the flowers on the lid have sides less than half a millimetre in length: and all of this was made with precision by hand by a master artisan more than a century ago.