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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)
It's the 1930s, it's dusk and the tank on your Chevy pickup is almost empty. Off in the distance, you see a reassuring glow, a rainbow of dark green, yellow, red and blue that gets stronger the closer you get to the locally run service station.
You pull up to a row of 10-foot-tall pumps, each one with a unique logo and colour scheme designed to make it stand out in the crowd. Unlike the utilitarian pumps of today, all of which are owned by a single corporation whose inoffensive logo is stamped on the side of the attached Kwik-E-Mart, these pumps have personality. You might be choosing between bright-green Polly Gas with its parrot on a perch, Imperial Oil's three stars, Frontier's rarin'-to-go stallion, the United Farmers of Alberta's maple leaf, or Sinclair's dinosaur ( "mellowed 100 millions of years").
Shells in their natural environment
2 strobes behind the water tank pointing at a reflective white background
A dip in to the Treasure Hunt for today's image. This open shell was beachcombed from Tasmania
Shell #61 for the Treasure Hunt
Shell Grotto, Hampton Court House, The Green, East Molesey, KT8 9BS. Photo taken during Open House London weekend.
The quaint Shell Museum, Glandford, is the oldest purpose-built museum in Norfolk and houses the finest seashell collection in the UK. Sony A7RII & FE 24-105mm f4 OSS
In 2001, Ron Bidwell, a signwriter by trade, together with his fellow "Letterheads" recreated vintage signs dating from 1895 to 1945 on local shop walls in Portland NSW. ‘Painting Portland’ was a project initiated by Ron Bidwell and completed during the Letterheads Wallnuts Weekend, in 2001. Thirty four signwriters travelled to Portland to work with locals to restore and reproduce advertising used in the early part of the 20th Century. Goanna Salve, Kinkara Tea, Bushell’s Tea, Mother’s Choice Flour, Uncle Toby’s Oats, Arnott’s Biscuits, Toohey’s Flag Ale, Solvol, Federal Safety Matches and Swagsman Blend Tea are a selection from the colourful Signs of Yesteryear.
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!
Shell and lichen. Cape Liptrap Coastal Park, Victoria, Australia
(2023-08-02_T2396TY_BearGully_DxO_crop1)
A murex shell on a reflective surface.
Using a surface of gold card with cellophane on top gives the impression of the wet sand of a beach.
SHELL SEAFARER - IMO : 8013118
Built 1981, by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Goole,UK (Yard # 599) as SHELL SEAFARER
GRT : 1599 / DWT : 3027
Overall Length : 79.2 metres x Beam 13.2 metres.
Machinery : 1 Screw driven by a Mirrlees Blackstone : 4-stroke single acting 6-cylinder oil engine
Speed : 12.0 knots
History………………… POR = Port of Registry
1981: SHELL SEAFARER : Shell UK Oil Ltd : POR London .
1993: ASPRELLA : Shell UK Oil Ltd : POR London .
•1994: Tonnage . ITC’69 became 1925 gt
1999: ARDUITY : F.T.Everard & Sons Management Ltd : POR London
2002: ARDUITY : F.T.Everard Shipping Ltd : POR London
2007: SALINA BAY : Salina Bay Maritime Ltd : POR Valletta
2021: Still listed as in service (Equasis)
SHELL SEAFARER seen 28 June 1981 on Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd quay in Goole Docks whilst still under construction. The vessel was not completed until 9 November 1981.
Ship Details : Miramar / shippingandshipbuilding.uk / Equasis
This pretty moth was in the shady brambles in my garden. Having a wild patch gives the creatures a haven. I have seen these in a wildlife reserve and was rather pleased to find one in my garden. ;)
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Yellow Shell;
Camptogramma bilineata
...the shells she sells,
are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells
on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells
Seashore shells!.
Close-up of a single exotic seashell on a rustic cloth.
Prints available at society6.com/product/shell-4_print.