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I think this is one of my favourite things to photograph, in the near vicinity to the house, the light always makes it look special
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The biggest problem with Edamame is that it is a pain to shell ... AND you throw away at least twice as much as you keep! They can be served in their shell and if you do it that way the seeds are popped into the mouth and the shell is thrown away. I prefer to shell them first as then they can be added to the dish as desired. Tonight I added them to the sweet and sour sauce.
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.
One of the many shell on the beach; I love how this one is up-turned in the wet sand.
52 in 2015 Challenge Group
15. Shell(s)
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.
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
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.
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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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
K200D + 50mm f1.7 Manual.... yeah baby...
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Burial - Shell Of Light
"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
My son hunting for shells just after dawn on Sanibel Island at low tide. Best viewed on black here: 'Shelling at Dawn' On Black
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