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By the side of a slipway at Sunderland`s Marina, there were hundreds of empty mussel shells, whether left by fishermen or birds I dont know but they make a nice collage.
As i got lots of comments already ,i upload some more interesting specimens.
My second explore i m surprised. # 175
Thank you jacilluch for the link.
Spondylus barbatus
Bearded Thorny Oyster
Take me back to the Caribbean! I brought this shell home from one of our winnter trips to a Carribean island, BC (before coronavirus). This is part of my #52Frames project, this week the assignment was "curves".
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Little Cove, Noosa Heads, Australia.
Yesterday afternoon I went and shot the sunset at Noosa and before I went to shoot I bought this shell from a nearby shop.
I’ve wanted to get a shell for quite a while now but just never got around to it until yesterday, It’s something different and makes for a nice subject with the sun setting in the background.
This is a hand held shot at 1/200 second exposure, my tripod didn’t go low enough so I just held the camera low with the focus as close as it could go on my lens, I shot this so the shell was the only thing focused because it was all about the shell and trying new things out.
I’d love to know your thoughts on this?
Thanks for looking.
This was taken this past fall in Newcastle, Maine at the site of the Whaleback shell midden but looking across the Damariscotta River at the Glidden midden (see detail below). , This is a site that contains oyster shells that were disposed of by the original inhabitants before Europeans arrived. Below is additional detail.
Whaleback Shell Midden is a shell midden, or dump, consisting primarily of oyster shells located on the east side of the Damariscotta River in Maine, United States. It is preserved as a Maine state historic site and was included as part of the Damariscotta Oyster Shell Heaps listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. Other shell middens are located on the estuary in both Damariscotta and Newcastle. The middens in this area were formed over about 1,000 years between 200 BC to AD 1000.
The midden originally had three main layers of shells. In the bottom two layers, individual shells were generally 5–8 inches (10–20 cm) long. These two layers are separated by a layer of soil, and the middle layer is mixed with animal bones. The top layer contains smaller shells. Artifacts unearthed lead scientists to believe that successive tribes of prehistoric people used the area. The top layer was deposited by members of the Abenaki tribes that fished in the area in the summer.
Originally, the Whaleback midden was more than thirty feet deep, more than 1,650 feet in length, and a width varying from 1,320 to 1,650 feet. It got its name from its shape. Only a small portion of this midden remains today as much of it was processed into chicken feed from 1886 to 1891 by the Massachusetts-based Damariscotta Shell and Fertilizer company. Because of this, the Glidden midden, located across the river in Newcastle, is now the largest in Maine and the largest on the U.S. east coast north of Georgia. By 1875 oysters that were once abundant were no longer native to New England waters. Wild populations have been established in recent years by the spawn of aquaculture oysters.[Wikipedia]
On 7 July 2025 the We're Here group were spotting Shells.
Several of the steps at South Staffordshire golf course are surfaced with shells. I don't know why; the course is a long way from the coast.
I was on a photo shoot for a cookbook. As I waited for the next item to be prepared for me to shoot, I noticed these egg shells on this glass plate. I was taken with how interesting they looked, and made a few exposures. I received a few questioning looks and comments ("Just WHAT are you going to do with those shells?"). I just smiled and said, "trust me."
Another photo of my latest wedding shooting.
The marriage ceremony took place on a boat.
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Theses scallop shells hang outside a dorset seafood restaurant. I love their colours, shape , the ridges. Photo edited with vignette to enhance the shells and the rope they are hanging from .
I took this with a canon macro 100mm 1:2.8 USM lens that I borrowed from my friend Jonathan Hood.
Sadly he has it back now.