A shell found at Long Reef (Sydney)

This little beach is made up of shells. It's very white during the day.

Shell Beach, CA

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.

Curdnatta Photographer's theme "Shallow DoF",

Beer bottle found along the beach at Eatons Neck among a massive pile of seashells. It really would be interesting to know how old this bottle is that it aquired so many shells/barnicles on it.

sperlonga - latina

I found this lovely slab of sandstone in the curbside collection while walking home from work last week, It was the perfect size. So I lugged it to the nearest main road and flagged a cab home. I then dragged it up into my attic studio – I can’t tell you how heavy this thing is.

I set up a still life to christen it, but the moment I poured the wine into the Roemer in came those damned Soused Cowfish, I wonder if you can get screens that will keep them out? They seem totally unafraid of sharp objects.

Here is my website Kevin Best Still Life Photographer

This image reminds me of the gas station images you saw back in the day. I waited until this was empty and no interfering traffic to take this image. Laowa Venus 17mm f/1.8 at f/4.

Barefoot Beach Preserve, Naples, FL

#495 on Explore, 29.07.2008

"Macro Mondays" "Shell”

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."

shells series

a few shells from a trip to the seaside.

Shell grit quarry.

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© Frank van Dam

Shells, stones etc. collected by my son Alexander at the beaches of Cadzand, Scheveningen, Wassenaar.

in the dark

shells

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.

not something I expected to see in Ireland...for a moment I thought I was in Fiji...then I felt the wind and knew better.

These beautifully preserved shells are on display at the Smithsonian.

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

Taken in Tramore cove, Sheephaven Bay, Donegal

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

A skinny crescent moon over my local Shell station

brush pen and watercoour

Strobist: SB26 camera right at 1/64 zoom set to 50 with a 1/4 CTO. Minolta 4000AF camera left and high set to 1/8 zoom set to 50 with a 1/4 CTO. Triggered with CyberSyncs.

K200D + 50mm f1.7 Manual.... yeah baby...

Indipensable escuchar para acompañar:

Burial - Shell Of Light

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French meringue.

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."

creating patterns

"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

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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