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A broken shell which i made an image of with my first digital camera, about 9 years ago.
It was processed with very basic soft-ware, which i was just playing around with, to see what happens.
Still a startling image!
Cowrie Shell
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Collecting Shells...
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Me encanta escuchar el melodioso sonido de las conchas,
cuando el viento las mece y una con otra golpean suavemente.
Shell extracted from a pine board. Base is made of walnut with pegs of ebony. Thanks to Steve Garrison for his imagination and his book on how to make one of these! I will surely do some more experimentation with alternate materials and angles.
Mary's Shell"" draws photographers from far and wide to England's Cleveleys Beach. Share if you'd like to visit this spectacular sculpture.
Captured by Phil Norton with an OM-D E-M1 and M.ZUIKO 7-14mm f2.8 PRO lens.
have a good sunday everyone.
it is raining madly here.
but i like it.
after this storm a think a little stroll by the seaside is in other to see if any shells got washed up.
it is election day in honduras today. pray for peace.
Macro Mondays - theme white background.
This was a hard one to do since the shells were also white. But I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.
An old Shell sign that appears to rise out of the desert. It's actually a full height sign at the local Shell distributor
The origins of the Shell petrol brand are somewhat surprising, but certainly explain how it came to be called that and how its logo evolved. In 1833, a chap called Marcus Samuel opens a shop in London selling oriental seashells, which became popular decor. Indeed, going back earlier in time, but discovered in 1835, was the Shell Grotto in Margate, Kent, which is a series of underground tunnels adorned with millions of seashells arranged in intricate patterns and symbols. Anyway, I digress.
In the 1970s, the sons of Marcus Samuel, apparently called Marcus Jr and Samuel (surely not!) expanded the business into Japan selling kerosene and other goods, and thus establishing the company's foundations in petrol. In 1897 the Shell Transport and Trading Co was founded in the UK. In 1907, and to be able to properly compete on the international market, the company merges with Royal Dutch Petroleum Company to form Royal Dutch Shell. By 1904 the instantly recognisable shell logo was introduced, based on a scallop shell, an earlier logo based on mussel design had been dropped.
By 1924 the company had its first refinery in Stanlow, Cheshire. In 1932, and to cope with the effects of the great depression, the Shell Mex-BP group was formed for UK operations and lasted up to its eventual break up in 1975-1976.
Bit by bit the company grew and grew into pretty much every part of the world and just over a century later there is hardly a place in the world where one doesn't see a Shell petrol station.
For many years of its operation, the word Shell did not need to appear on the signs as the logo was so iconic by then that pretty much everyone knew the brand.
For a much more comprehensive history of the company look here
www.shell.com/who-we-are/our-history/our-company-history....
I've collected quite a few Shell branded keyrings, featuring a few of their post war logo variations.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
--Rumi