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Some great shells from the local clams. Beautiful patterns and colors. Photo taken on the beach of San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
I was set on finding a rare Taiwan Russell's viper, and had found an injured one on the road in this area last November. After getting encouragement from a local farmer who said he'd seen many right here, i spent several hours searching around this tank firing range, coming away in the end with only a set of interesting photos.
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Miller's (2,450 square feet)
948 J Clyde Morris Boulevard, Newport News, VA
This location opened in fall 2000, replacing an older 1960s-built Shell/Miller Mart #66 that sat on the same site (known as "Bayberry Shell").
This beautiful beach is composed of shells, from fine grains of shell to complete shells, in the dunes at the back of the beach one can see clear layers showing the fine sand, then almost complete shells, looks stunning when its wet!
Shell Beach, Ness of Duncansby, Caithness, Scotland.
As requested - View On Black
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52 Week Challenge - Week 12 - managed to get a nice sharp shot of this snail shell on a bench near the river :D
Using the spiral shell design a a start, the experimenting led to something I "saw" as a future playground attraction. Giant video panels containing ever changing bold compositions of Nautilus shell imagery. Stuff that would delight the little ones. Maybe a few older ones also. Maybe add a tall strip of transparent steel (yet to be invented) on the left.
Being the first day of the new year my mind has started to wonder to the summer. Being totally ignorant of UK shell life I recognise this seashell but are unable to identify it.
Trying the B/W setting on the camera...interesting...this is almost straight out of the camera...may try pp in Topaz and see what can be achieved.
Digital collage based around image of baby in shell using lots of free brushes - now finished off with hand dyed lace and space dyed ribbon bows.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding
- Kahlil Gibran
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Sliced Nautilus shell showing inside chambers.
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sail the unshadowed main,--
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
Before thee lies revealed,--
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!
Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year's dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn;
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
"The Chambered Nautilus"
-Oliver Wendall Holmes