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Taken for Macro Monday's "Shell" theme

Picture taken 8/13/22

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Disney Princess Dress-Up Dolls from Disney.go.com.

 

Dresses chosen and reconstructed by me.

 

Posted to: Disney com Princess Dress-Up Dolls: Ariel

About 1980, while sitting over coffee in El Paso, Texas, I assisted my friends the Cragins in buying sight-unseen a well-used but well-designed Tartan 30 sailboat. The boat was swinging on a mooring 400 air miles away in the middle of San Carlos Bay on the mainland west coast of Mexico. On the following Memorial Day weekend, with daughter Sara home from college, the four of us flew down in the Cragins' Twin Comanche to see the boat for the first time. As we sailed the boat out of the harbor mouth for a trial run, we decided spontaneously to continue sailing all night across the Sea of Cortez to the Baja Peninsula. While the rest of us slept, Sara was assigned the mid-watch from midnight to 4:00 a.m. and was quite literally given "... a star to steer her by." On arrival, we anchored in the dark at the mouth of Bahia Conception. On awakening, we found ourselves adjacent to a charming shell beach. This is Sara collecting shells upon first walking on the

beach.

 

A fake Shell Oil billboard in Houston, July 19, 2012, reads "You Can't Run Your SUV on Cute, Let's Go." The sign mocks Shell's current advertising campaign with an image of a polar bear and cubs. By chasing after hard-to-reach oil in remote and dangerous places, Shell is putting polar bears, walruses and other Arctic wildlife at risk.

Soft focus and monochrome gives these shells a vintage feel.

this has been a long winter here in the northwest... I am ready for a little warmth and sun!

September 5, 2014.

 

With textures from Shadowhouse Creations. Thanks again, Jerry.

 

This shot probably would have been better if the shells weren't so dirty. Because they are so small and delicate, it's hard to get them clean without damaging or losing one or two. I tried the Photoshop healing brush, but there's just too much to "clean". I decided that natural was better, in this case.

 

See previous photos for explanations on size and found location.

Shell Eco-marathon Asia - the Urban Concept class. Over several days, teams make as many attempts as possible to travel the furthest on the equivalent of one litre of fuel. Cars drive a fixed number of laps around the circuit at a set speed. Organisers calculate their energy efficiency and name a winner in each class and for each energy source. (photo by Ben Cho)

I was in Florida briefly over the weekend -- not too many photo opportunities (time constraints), but I did manage to wander down an isolated beach.

These shells were tiny -- the sand grains give a sense of scale -- and each one was perfectly formed.

Another lookout with shells on the beach.

Pendant made with paua shell, pearls, and crystals.

She'll Gas Station Sign Gasoline Petrol , pics by Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia and TheToyChannel on YouTube. Shell gas Station Signs Logo

Activists hang under the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon, July 30, 2015, In an attempt to block the Shell leased icebreaker, MSV Fennica from passing under the bridge to join Shell's Arctic drilling fleet.

An unusual formation of sea shells I came across last time I photographed Fontygary Bay.

African Beads:

;The earliest Africans made beads as “fetishes”, charms, talisman and amulets for protection and adornments. The first materials were shell, stone, wood, bone, seeds, amber, ivory, teeth, clay, metals, etc. Beads were highly valuable and were also used as currency.

Trading could be done for food, livestock, etc. Beads evolve into a visual language that express rank, spirituality initiation, used to communicate culture value important to the people way of life. African people have had a special relationship with beads for thousands of years.

No other people on the planet used as many beads or in such abundance as African and the importance of the beads was not it shape, color, size or place of manufacture but the value that had been assign to it by privies generations

.Long before the first European return to Africa in the 1400’s century we were adorning ourselves with beads. Many of the beads are becoming increasingly rare and difficult to fine and some are no longer available, as worldwide demand for the beads increases.

 

" African Trade Beads":

this term typically applies to beads made predominately in European countries from the late 1400s through to the early 1900s, beads traded in Africa, Americas and other counties.

This "trade" period was from the mid 1800s through the early 1900s; millions of these beads were produced and traded in Africa. The Europeans dominated the African bead market.

 

The Beads were re- introduced to the American market in the late 1960s, by young peace core volunteer returning from Africa.

The beads became associated with the Hippie movement as symbols of love and peace. Today these beads are popular in contemporary jewelry and as collectable items .Millions are in private collections, bead and museums. All beads from the collection of MBAD/ABA African Bead Museum.

      

Amber Beads:

 

is worn in the hair of unmarried Fulani girl from herder families. Once married girls would wear large amber beads around their neck and in their hair for protection and style..

 

Amber was highly prized in some areas as a symbol of status and protection. A beautiful selection of old "Amber" from Mali, Morocco, Guinea and Mauritania are in this collection.

 

Showing the wide variety of shapes and colors all the beads are in excellent condition. Very old amber is difficult to find, increasingly valuable and highly collectable. Some of the beads were mended and most have been fitted with copper and brass to protect the preparation. All amber is from the collection of MBAD/ABA African Bead Museum.

 

More photos of the shells we collected, with a couple of extras added on our last day.

Shell (1,342 square feet)

7501 Tidewater Drive, Southern Shopping Center, Norfolk, VA

 

This was originally a Citgo/Royal Mart that was built and opened in 2000.

Shell (1,342 square feet)

7501 Tidewater Drive, Southern Shopping Center, Norfolk, VA

 

This was originally a Citgo/Royal Mart that was built and opened in 2000.

Shell

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").

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