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The unknown story of the broken sea shells collectors
At Uadaypur sea beach (3km from Digha at the Bengal-Orissa state border), hundreds of poor villagers (80% of them are women) gather on a particular time of the day at the peak of the low tide. They all carry a small net basket for collecting broken shells following the line of the waves. When the baskets are half-filled they empty their catch at the beach and go back to the waves again. Finally the shells are packed in bags for selling. After two hours of continuous hard work, two people together can fill only a 30-kg bag selling for INR Rs 30 (USD 50 cents) only.
The shells are rich source of calcium carbonate, use in feeder mainly at the India's growing poultry industry. Also, it has great demand in making the white (lime) paint. Traders and middlemen are always waiting to exploit these poor villagers. They make on-the-spot payment, collect the bags and transport them to the local market for a hefty profit of 300% by selling each bag for at least Rs 100 (USD $ 2).
I personally talked to the shell collectors and found no Govt. intervention to stop this exploitation. The state government can easily intervene by forming a cooperative and collecting the shells themselves by their nodal agencies with a reasonable price.
Udaypur Sea Beach, Bay of Bengal
Images of Bengal, India
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Miller's (2,450 square feet)
948 J Clyde Morris Boulevard, Newport News, VA
This location opened in fall 2000, replacing an older 1960s-built Shell/Miller Mart #66 that sat on the same site (known as "Bayberry Shell").
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.
This fiberglass shell has been sitting on the roadside for years. Can you guess what it is? Hint: the car model is decades old, but has been picked up by other manufacturers long after the demise of the original company.
Answer: a Studebaker Avanti. Seen in Fallston, PA but gone as of August 2011.
The pilgrim symbol of the scallop shell. Rue de la Citadelle, St-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France.A welcome sight for the thirsty pilgrim on the way to Santiago de Compostella by this well-travelled road towards the high pass of Roncevaux.
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
A panorama of a nearly whole iridescent shell I found while walking along Fort Myers Beach. Merged from a series of photos around the shell to create a wider and higher res shot. Biggest challenge as getting the shots before the next wave came in and changed things around.
Photographed with Sony Alpha A6000/ICLE-6000 with FE55-210 lens. Fort Myers Beach, Florida. Photomerged and processed in Adobe Lightroom.
One of the few Shell stations in the Toronto area that has service bays in a modernized ranch station! It's right across the road from Pearson International Airport
Lovely Shell Oils Poster from a 1924 painting by artist Norman Keane.
Shell was not afraid to use a cliche or two, the speeding racing car is depicted on the Brooklands banking - BANK on Super Shell. with the bye line a sound investment - BANK
Many thanks for a fantabulous 33,051,400 views
Shot on 01.01.2015 in the Brooklands Members Pavilion at the New Years Day Classic Car Gathering Ref 104-278