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I was in the right place at the right time to catch this shot of the interior of the Weld Boathouse in Cambridge. It is definitely not open to the public. Loved the look of all these sleek racing shells, resting in place with just a peak of the Charles River out the door.
27 Jan - photo a day 2016.
This shell was purchased during our first trip to New Zealand.
Haliotis iris, common name paua, blackfoot paua or rainbow abalone, is a species of edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.
This species is endemic to New Zealand Blackfoot paua is the largest abalone species found in New Zealand. It is most commonly found in shallow cool waters at depths less than 6 m. These sea snails often form large clusters on open, exposed coasts, where drift seaweed accumulates and there is good water movement. Blackfoot paua grow to about 180 mm in shell width.
© Mike Broome 2016
Shell Bay, Poole Harbour, Dorset, England, UK.
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Experimenting with some "art" from the sea. I need some new prints for the walls...I've picked up shells for as long as I can remember....from coast to coast...and sea to sea:) I believe these were from Sarasota, Florida...the Gulf of Mexico.
When I was out for a walk last weekend I found a big pile of empty snail shells.Some bird had had a good feast!
Anyway I took some home for my "things to photograph" collection
For the Gacha Garden Event May
100% Original Meshes
Change via HUD:
- Resize
- Hide shells &pearls
- 7 shell & 2 pearl colors (common); 7 coral, 2 pearl & 7 shell colors (rare)
- Glow, Shininess, Full bright
Two interesting things about this image (well, to me, anyway). Firstly, it was taken with a standard non-macro Nikkor 50mm lens attached to the Nikon Z6 through the FTZ adapter and triple-decked macro ring extenders. This brought the subject to just a couple of cm from the front of the lens. Secondly, this was the first time I tried Nikon's SnapBridge app on my iPhone to fully control the camera. This allowed me to take the shot without any need to touch the vcamera once I had carried out the initial set-up. The focus, shutter-speed and aperture were all controlled remotely as well as the final tripper release. Well done Nikon, excellent bit of technology and it can only get better!!
I took this photo at the beach. One shell was fould on the beach and the other is from Pottery barn. I placed them between the rocks and the waves would roll in . I was hoping to get some bokeh off the water, which I did but also had to run after the shells when the waves took them away. But it was fun!!
Sunrise at the Pink Shell Marina.
Location: Ft. Myers Beach, Florida
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The "I wish I was at the beach, but instead I'm photographing shells in my bedroom on blue paper" series. #1
This is a teensy starfish...it's actually sitting inside another shell :)
Used coffeeshop's butterscotch vintage action
Recently my son found this shell in our garden and wanted me to take a picture of it (he knows that I like to take pictures of bugs, insects, weird objects etc). So, I thought of giving it a try even though this shell is damaged (left lower corner) and not in perfect shape. After many permutations and combinations, I zeroed on capturing it against the light coming from the window. So, I placed it on a white paper on the window ledge.The light entered through the shell aperture/mouth and made it glow (kind of). So, I took this glowing concept a bit further and processed it such that the glow was enhanced a bit. It is a very minimalistic shot but somehow the end result is quite OK.
Shot this with my Sigma 70-300 lens which doubles up as a decent macro lens between 200-300mm. My experience with this lens has been mixed as it goes very soft beyond 200mm. But since I don't have a dedicated macro lens, this lens comes in handy at times.
My Macros and Flowers set.
Another old, beaten up, weathered shell from a beach in Baja. Even thought the shell isn't pristine, I like the shapes and color.
Strobist info: A simple one light setup. I placed this on a mirror and then positioned a YN560-II in a 24 inch softbox, camera left, about 4 inches from the shell. I held a large silver reflector camera right to bounce some light back on to the dark side. The strobe in manual mode was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other shell pictures I've taken can be seen in my Shells set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290/
Other pictures that I've taken over the years in this beautiful area can be seen in my Baja set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157600779263103/
"As one of the sights of the city of Nuremberg, the Beautiful Fountain is part of Nuremberg's Historical Mile. Built in 1396, it stands on the edge of the main market next to the Nuremberg town hall. The Beautiful Fountain is around 19 meters high and has the shape of a Gothic church spire decorated with pinnacles.
The Beautiful Fountain was built by Heinrich Beheim between 1385 and 1396; “According to Andern it was built by the brothers Georg and Fritz Rupprecht in collaboration with Sebald Schonhofer.”
Throughout history, the fountain has been restored and rebuilt several times (first in 1822–24 by the sculptor Jacob Daniel Burgschmiet). The first complete copy of the fountain (also made of sandstone) dates from 1835 and 1839. Today, a colorfully painted shell limestone copy made in 1903 can be seen on the main market; During this time the stepped platform was also built around a ring of steps; The preserved remains of the stone original are in the Germanic National Museum (restored under Heinrich Walraff in 1899–1903, it was rebuilt in its current form in 1912 based on the weathered Gothic original). From 1902 until it was dismantled by the Nazi city administration in 1934, the Beautiful Fountain had an exciting architectural and urban planning counterpoint with the baroque Neptune Fountain.
During the Second World War, the Schöne Brunnen was covered in a concrete shell and survived the air raids on Nuremberg unscathed.
For the 2006 World Cup, the fountain was encased by the artist Olaf Metzel with a sculpture made of towered stadium seats. When constructing the work of art entitled Goodbye, there were sometimes bitter disputes between supporters and opponents.
The forty colorfully painted figures of the fountain represent the world view of the Holy Roman Empire on four floors. From below these are: Philosophy and the Seven Liberal Arts, the four Evangelists and the four Church Fathers, the seven Electors and the Nine Good Heroes, Moses and seven prophets. The gargoyles symbolize the seven vices and the lucky charm Adebar.
The rotating rings in two of the eight grids (forged in 1587 by the Augsburg locksmith Paulus Kuhn) that fence the fountain are well known. It is not known when the original brass one was installed. The fact is that the brass ring was renewed at least five times (1824, 1903, 1949, 1950 and 1957), while the second one - the iron one on the north-eastern side - was inserted in 1902 and has been the older one, unchanged since then. The numerous other rings in the grid are original and although they cannot be rotated, they still come from Kuhn himself. Only with sharp protests from citizens and artists could the grid be saved after Nuremberg became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1811.
Nuremberg (/ˈnjʊərəmbɜːrɡ/ NURE-əm-burg; German: Nürnberg [ˈnʏʁnbɛʁk]; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch [ˈnɛmbɛrç]) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 545,000 inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.
Nuremberg sits on the Pegnitz, which carries the name Regnitz from its confluence with the Rednitz in Fürth onwards (Pegnitz→ Regnitz→ Main→ Rhine→ North Sea), and on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, that connects the North Sea to the Black Sea. Lying in the Bavarian administrative region of Middle Franconia, it is the largest city and unofficial capital of the entire cultural region of Franconia. The city is surrounded on three sides by the Reichswald, a large forest, and in the north lies Knoblauchsland (garlic land), an extensive vegetable growing area and cultural landscape.
The city forms a continuous conurbation with the neighbouring cities of Fürth, Erlangen and Schwabach, which is the heart of an urban area region with around 1.4 million inhabitants, while the larger Nuremberg Metropolitan Region has a population of approximately 3.6 million. It is the largest city in the East Franconian dialect area (colloquially: "Franconian"; German: Fränkisch).
Nuremberg and Fürth were once connected by the Bavarian Ludwig Railway, the first steam-hauled and overall second railway opened in Germany (1835). Today, the U1 of the Nuremberg Subway, which is the first German subway with driverless, automatically moving railcars, runs along this route. Nuremberg Airport (Flughafen Nürnberg "Albrecht Dürer") is the second-busiest airport in Bavaria after Munich Airport, and the tenth-busiest airport of the country.
Institutions of higher education in Nuremberg include the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Germany's 11th-largest university, with campuses in Erlangen and Nuremberg and a university hospital in Erlangen (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen), Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm and Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg. The Nuremberg exhibition centre (Messe Nürnberg) is one of the biggest convention center companies in Germany and operates worldwide.
Nuremberg Castle and the city's walls, with their many towers, are among the most impressive in Europe. Staatstheater Nürnberg is one of the five Bavarian state theatres, showing operas, operettas, musicals, and ballets (main venue: Nuremberg Opera House), plays (main venue: Schauspielhaus Nürnberg), as well as concerts (main venue: Meistersingerhalle). Its orchestra, the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, is Bavaria's second-largest opera orchestra after the Bavarian State Opera's Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich. Nuremberg is the birthplace of Albrecht Dürer and Johann Pachelbel. 1. FC Nürnberg is the most famous football club of the city and one of the most successful football clubs in Germany. Nuremberg was one of the host cities of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Franconia (German: Franken, pronounced [ˈfʁaŋkŋ̍]; Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian dialect (German: Fränkisch).
Franconia is made up of the three Regierungsbezirke of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria, the adjacent, Franconian-speaking, South Thuringia, south of the Thuringian Forest—which constitutes the language boundary between Franconian and Thuringian— and the eastern parts of Heilbronn-Franconia in Baden-Württemberg.
Those parts of the Vogtland lying in Saxony (largest city: Plauen) are sometimes regarded as Franconian as well, because the Vogtlandian dialects are mostly East Franconian. The inhabitants of Saxon Vogtland, however, mostly do not consider themselves as Franconian. On the other hand, the inhabitants of the Hessian-speaking parts of Lower Franconia west of the Spessart (largest city: Aschaffenburg) do consider themselves as Franconian, although not speaking the dialect. Heilbronn-Franconia's largest city of Heilbronn and its surrounding areas are South Franconian-speaking, and therefore only sometimes regarded as Franconian. In Hesse, the east of the Fulda District is Franconian-speaking, and parts of the Oden Forest District are sometimes regarded as Franconian for historical reasons, but a Franconian identity did not develop there.
Franconia's largest city and unofficial capital is Nuremberg, which is contiguous with Erlangen and Fürth, with which it forms the Franconian conurbation with around 1.3 million inhabitants. Other important Franconian cities are Würzburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Ansbach and Coburg in Bavaria, Suhl and Meiningen in Thuringia, and Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg.
The German word Franken—Franconians—also refers to the ethnic group, which is mainly to be found in this region. They are to be distinguished from the Germanic people of the Franks, and historically formed their easternmost settlement area. The origins of Franconia lie in the settlement of the Franks from the 6th century in the area probably populated until then mainly by the Elbe Germanic people in the Main river area, known from the 9th century as East Francia (Francia Orientalis). In the Middle Ages the region formed much of the eastern part of the Duchy of Franconia and, from 1500, the Franconian Circle. The restructuring of the south German states by Napoleon, after the demise of the Holy Roman Empire, saw most of Franconia awarded to Bavaria." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
ODC, Polychromatic or Multicolour
Monday was one of those struggle day when it came to taking photographs.....it happens from time to time, but always passes.
I got home late and hadn't taken anything multicoloured, so quickly set up these shells with a light. They may not be multicoloured with reds, blues, greens and yellows, but they have many tints and tones of brown :)
Panorama out of 3 captures.
Single exposure. I posted the HDR version of this scene 3 years ago but I like this one with the single exposure more.
The flint Shell House at Bicton Park contains an international collection of seashells from around the world. The area is accessed by a maze of footpaths weaving their way through the ferns. Exotic tree-ferns now grace an almost primeval rocky glade, created at the start of the Victorian 'fern fever' era.
Bicton Park Botanical Gardens is a tourist attraction on the southern part of the former Bicton estate. The landscaped park includes historic glasshouses, a countryside museum, the Bicton Woodland Railway train ride, nature trail, maze, mini golf, indoor and outdoor children's play complexes, restaurant and shop. The gardens, which originated in c.1730 are Grade I listed.
The four glasshouses at Bicton Gardens were designed to re-create the natural environment of plants from different continents. The Palm House was built in the 1820s to a curvilinear design, using 18,000 small glass panes in thin iron glazing bars. The Tropical House is the home of the Bicton orchid (Lemboglossum bictoniense), named after the Park where it first bloomed in 1836. The Arid House features cacti and other succulents growing in a naturalistic desert landscape.
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