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A dip in to the Treasure Hunt for today's image. This open shell was beachcombed from Tasmania
Shell #61 for the Treasure Hunt
While we're on gas pumps, I happened to remember this old shot from a bike tour many years ago. Pre digital days, the photo was most likely taken with one of the small Olympus clam shell cameras.
(photo taken by my old buddy Calvin)
Commentary.
This beach, popular with me since the 1970’s,
shot to fame as the archetypal West Coast gem in the 1983 film, “Local Hero.”
Like so many others its shell-sand glistens white against a turquoise and azure sea.
The dune path to it from the old main road is like a mini-gorge through the marram grass-clad sand hills.
Then this view is revealed as we tip-toe across the stream to the main beach, fascinating vistas to Skye and Rum.
The highest peak, Sgurr Alasdair, one of my favourite viewing platforms, that I have happily climbed three times.
Amazingly in this telephoto image, it is nearly 25 miles away, across the Sound of Sleat, the Sleat Peninsula, Loch Slapin, the Strathaird Peninsula, Loch Scavaig and the ten-mile horseshoe of delectable peaks that make up this glorious mountain range.
The rocky headlands smothered in rock-pools thronging with life and the pure unspoilt nature of this Morar Bay.
There is a fantasy magic in these views of beach, ocean, cliff, hill, mountain and island that simply mesmerises.
A total delight to those souls who venture this far,
a Shangri-La……………….reward indeed!
Haven't been shell hunting in weeks, I never find a good shell through the summer, they are either picked up by children or mashed under foot and damaged. Today was a good shell day and a beautiful sunset at Calshot
double stacked
shells
how intimate is that? :-)
looking like stars
sunshiney bokeh
a little walk out to the deck.
:-)
having fun on the beach
looks like I am getting enough "S-word" and we haven't moved on yet.......
Scavenger Challenge - June 2018 Assignment - “S nouns”
Our Daily Challenge ... in a row.
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #20 - Blue" "Technique Tuesday" Technique used :- a filter with a heart shaped hole and shallow depth of field to produce heart shaped bokeh where the light is catching the shine on the beads.
© David K. Edwards. Not enough light. Thus too much aperture. Thus not enough depth of field. Thus not enough focus. Both of us? Milly's shell, anyhow.
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 :)
The centerpiece at each table; blooms from my yard, and gifts from the sea, beach glass, shells, and pearls!
That's the exposed roots of a fallen tree, and the average conch shell in this photo is about six inches long. I've previously mentioned/shown a bit of the effects of the "No Shelling" rule at Botany Bay Plantation on Edisto Island in South Carolina, but it is still fascinating to experience. Since people cannot take the shells with them, they decorate all possible surfaces with them.
Yellow Shell moth, Camptogramma bilineata. 17 August 2024. Ealing, London, England, UK.
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