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This is really best viewed large to see the color and detail - a very special shell.
These are some of my mom's favorite colors...
Shot on a piece of plate glass, with black seamless taped to the bottom. Shaped hole cut to allow light to pass through. Glass was set on a 20" long piece of 12" diameter concrete form tube (Home Depot). I lined the tube with silver lame fabric from Jo-Anns, set it on top of a silver reflector fabric and suspended a 580 EX (@ 1/8th power ) 10" up and aimed down.
A 2nd 580 EX at 1/128th power on a light stand with Honl 20 deg grid is positioned camera right to bring back some of the texture of the shell.
Sanibel Island is one of the best places to collect shells from the beach View A Video About Sanibel Island Shell Collecting
52 Week Challenge - Week 12 - managed to get a nice sharp shot of this snail shell on a bench near the river :D
Using the spiral shell design a a start, the experimenting led to something I "saw" as a future playground attraction. Giant video panels containing ever changing bold compositions of Nautilus shell imagery. Stuff that would delight the little ones. Maybe a few older ones also. Maybe add a tall strip of transparent steel (yet to be invented) on the left.
That's right, besides having maybe the most spectacular sunsets I've seen.
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The best shelling is found on the beaches of Sanibel and Captiva Islands. The islands rank tops in the world for shelling because of geography. Sanibel Island does the twist as it parades along the coastline among a string of other more orderly, straight-and-narrow islands. The east-west torque of Sanibel’s south end acts like a shovel scooping up all the seashells that the Gulf imports from The Caribbean and other southern seas.
The abundance and variety of shells have made Sanibel and Captiva Islands shell-obsessed. People come from all over the world, drawn by the song of the seashell. They parade along the sands doubled over in a stance that’s been dubbed the Sanibel Stoop. Every March, they gather to compare and appreciate shell collections and shell art at the annual Sanibel Shell Fair & Show. (From www.sanibel-captiva.org)
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Shell (3,080 square feet)
2859 Caratoke Highway, Currituck, NC
This store was built and opened in 1987.
Being the first day of the new year my mind has started to wonder to the summer. Being totally ignorant of UK shell life I recognise this seashell but are unable to identify it.
Trying the B/W setting on the camera...interesting...this is almost straight out of the camera...may try pp in Topaz and see what can be achieved.
Digital collage based around image of baby in shell using lots of free brushes - now finished off with hand dyed lace and space dyed ribbon bows.