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Sliced Nautilus shell showing inside chambers.
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sail the unshadowed main,--
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
Before thee lies revealed,--
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!
Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year's dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn;
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
"The Chambered Nautilus"
-Oliver Wendall Holmes
Some great shells from the local clams. Beautiful patterns and colors. Photo taken on the beach of San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
London Olympic Park, Stratford, London UK. Cars designed to travel as far as possible with just one litre of fuel apparently.
Perhaps because seashells are so inappropriate in a rainforest mountain garden, they appear randomly and unexpectedly in ours
I have added a canopy with LED lighting to my model garage so I can emulate a set-up at night. This is my first attempt, and it's not perfect, but I haven't tried such a thing before and was inspired by others I have seen.
I always wanted to document this style of Shell gas station in a Bernd and Hilla Becher kind of way. I haven't gotten to this yet, as the subject matter is a hard one to shoot effectively with numerous problems like power lines, lots full of cars (even on Sundays), and surrounding distractions. I did try years ago, but the day I went to shoot the one station I had in mind, I arrived to discover it had been completely torn down the day before. This shot is effectively out of focus...
This is LEGO(R) model 377 Shell Station or Shell Service Station from 1978. It is a Town set released and contains a Shell gas station, a car and two mini-figures.
The strings were done using the rope macro by Chris Bartlet. They came out okay, but I probably could have played some more with the "lay over" feature to make drape more over the bricks.
I also used blob for the first time to create the female pigtail object. It came out pretty good, although you can't really see it in this photo. I'm rendering 386 Air Ambulance again with the correct hair piece to see if it looks as good when less obscured.