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An amazing 1932 building that still looks amazing now 80 years later. Shell-Haus (Shell House) is a classical modernist architectural masterpiece that stands overlooking the Landwehrkanal in the Tiergarten district of Berlin. It was designed by Emil Fahrenkamp and finished in 1932.
Murex pecten The Venus Comb Shell
I always imagined that this shell would move with the larger end in the foreground being the front, however I saw a video of the living sea snail gliding beneath this shell , with the narrow end being the front. Therefore the shell is definitely the animal's defence against predators, and after accidentally standing on one of these shells in bare feet, can tell you the spines are needle sharp and incredibly strong. I was able to pull the shell out of the bottom of my foot and not a spine had broken. So, as well as being very decorative, the shell serves it's purpose well.
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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For "Our Daily Challenge ... accumulated"
My shell and sea star collection ... some gifts, some bought and some found on the beach. I have accumulated enough now to make a nice display in a glass bowl.
"She sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells."
Hula themed first birthday. Cake and cupcakes are vanilla chocolate marbled cake. All decorations hand made. Mold used for the shells
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 .
Still fishing around for old images to play with, because I cannot walk well enough to shoot anything new. Two more weeks til surgery. Yeah!
Been away from the computer throughout the festive season, so apologies for not commenting at all!
Here's the first post, nothing special but I quite liked the orange of the shell against the dead leaf litter.
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"The Sound Shell was commissioned in 1967 by the Rosebud Foreshore Committee from the local architect Ronald Murcott and was completed in 1969. Rosebud had become a popular holiday camp site and recreation area, and the sound shell was part of a series of improvements made along the foreshore in the 1960s. Murcott had an interest in the unusual roof forms popular in the post-war period and their potential to span large spaces. He had already designed a church and a car park with roofs in the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid (or hypar), a special form of double-curved shell, the geometry of which is generated by straight lines, which makes it fairly easy to construct. He used the same form for the sound shell, in this case of reinforced concrete construction. Murcott was assisted in the design by the engineer Dr John Brotchie of the CSIRO Division of Building Research, an expert in the analysis of concrete shell structures, and J L van der Molen, a local pioneer in the application of computer technology to the design of concrete structures. The builder was Trevor J Luck.
The Rosebud Sound Shell has a free-standing reinforced concrete shell in the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid above a stage on one side and several enclosed rooms (formerly toilets and storage facilities) at the rear. The roof plan is roughly a diamond-shape, measuring 23 metres by 21 metres. The thickness of the shell varies from 762 mm along the central axis to 508 mm where the lower corners touch the ground. On the stage side the roof rises to a height of 8.8 metres and is slightly lower, 4.9 metres at the rear. The walls below the roof are of concrete block construction. These have now been painted with murals. Since the structure was completed barriers have been added at the lower corners to prevent access to the roof."
Source: Victorian Heritage Database
Shell cottage erected in the sand dunes at Freshwater West used in the filming of the new Harry potter film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, to be released in two parts in 2010 and 2011
Tiny shell photographed with a microscope using a 2,5x objective. Apprx 6 panels stitched in microsoft ICE. Had to drastically reduce the image size for uploading.
A present from my cat, who brought the shell inside stuck to her fur, so i realised i had a new subject to shoot. :)
shell edited with textures
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Shell Ginger is native to East Asia and grows from about 8-10 feet (2.9-3m) It is used as an ornamental shrub, and the leaves are used in Cuisine and traditional medicine. (Hypertensive, diuretic, antioxidant, and anti-ulcerogenic properties are some of it's benefits.)
It is also known as Pink Porcelain Lily or Variegated Ginger.
(from Wikipedia)
The flowers were beautiful, and the white outer petals seemed to have the sheen of a pearl. All types of bees and other insects seem to be drawn to it.
(Alpinia zerumbet)
Florida Botanical Gardens
Tiny shell smaller than my pinky nail, looking so much like a butterfly. The inside was a deep shade of purple. Found on Sandestin Beach in Florida.
I love this little swath of beach made up entirely of shells hence the name 'shell beach'! Getting the timing right as far as lighting, tide high enough to push them onto the shellbar and actually having the birds
there is so rewarding and quite entertaining...a safe haven for a variety of birds and loved by many people. The sad news is that I heard from a dear friend, Gail "hocky lover" that it's possibly going to be under development for condo's and such! I for one will certainly be sad to see this happen!
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Letter on reverse (below) kindly translated by xiphophilos: authored near Cambrai on 8.6.17. An often seen photograph of a knocked out British 'Male' Mk II tank. Note the decidedly impotent 6 pounder.
This particular machine was a training tank and as such, it was not constructed of case hardened steel plates like the regular tanks. It was not designed for combat, but this did not stop the British commanders from sending it into battle regardless.
The tank was captured by Grenadier-Regiment 123 near Bullecourt on 11 April 1917. As it was, the tanks made little impact on the battle getting knocked out very quickly. One did manage to make its way into Bullecourt village but had to be abandoned in the face of stiff resistance and the fact that the supporting infantry had not made as much progress as had been planned.
Bullecourt is perhaps the First World War battle that engendered the greatest distrust and contempt in Australian troops for their British commanders. Sandwiched between, and sometimes overshadowed by, two of the best-known Australian actions of the war - Pozières (July-August 1916) and Passchendaele (October 1917) - Bullecourt did not involve the level of casualties of these two, but it nevertheless resulted in huge losses for the Australian divisions involved.
Alb. I.