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Miller's (2,579 square feet)
12245 Jefferson Ave, Newport Marketplace, Newport News, VA
This store was built in 1985. It was formerly a Happy Store Fuel Mart that became a Mobil/Miller Mart combo in 1994.
Drawing shells was definitely a challenge for me. I used watercolor, pastel chalk, colored pencils and a white marker to color. Basically, I tried almost everything except crayon. I'm new to working in color & have no idea what I'm doing.
I wrote this poem last summer with sea glass in mind. It seemed appropriate to add it here:
An enigmatic reunion
Of bottle bits once brilliant
Now scathed and scorned by the elements
Recklessly tossed along dissonant waves
Finally shunned unceremoniously and deposited
Along pallid shores
Where their watery journey had once begun.
I came home from a walk to find A had been doing a lot of tidying and dusting, and rearranging a large collection of stones and shells on one of our windowsills. This was one of his mini-installations.
we call these puppyeyes.... probably they have some other more "scientific" name for them.... I am yearning for the Barbados of my childhood when we spent pleasant hours on the beaches.... full of shells and free of people.
Close up of the shells in the found box of cartridges. Amazing to think that the moisture hasn't really gotten to them.
German Andenkenmuschel ; souvenir shell with text :
" Erinnerung an den Weltkrieg 1914-15 , F. Mittermeier ,
Minenprahm II " , 9.5 cm
' memento of the World War 1914-15 , F. Mittermeier , mine barge 2 '
I have not found specific info on this mine barge/lighter yet except that its home port was Wilhelmshaven and it did duty on the North Sea.
there is another Andenkenmuschel made by or for
B. Griepenburg, also from Minenprahm II, on the site Europeana 1914-1918 :
www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2020601/attachments_149...
Lost one of pair earring made into brand new pretty necklace!If I can't find cute necklace at store,I make them:)coper chain,shell,pearls
A 'tones and textures' shot.
I know it's perhaps not the most environmentally sound thing to do, but we do collect sea shells on our trips and travels. I think both of us are continually fascinated by the beauty (and ingenuity) of Nature's handiwork - apart from the excesses of Scottish rain maybe...
They originate from just about every part of the South/South West England coastline, quite a few Scottish beaches, including the Isle of Mull, plus some from an island off the Malaysia / Thailand border.
Shot while they're in their usual spot on a North facing front window sill, standing on a carved wooden (sandalwood maybe?) tray which was brought back from Brazil in the 1950's by my uncle, who was in the Merchant Navy. For it was he that sparked the imagination of a very young lad with stories about outings in Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Nassau etc.
My curiosity about the world hasn't diminished much since then!
Nikon D200 + Tamron 90mm Macro
Shell
Food Mart (1,200 square feet)
5537 Richmond Road, Williamsburg, VA
This station was built in 1990 and was formerly an Exxon.
Edward Weston photo Shells 1927. I tried to replicate a photo of a shell centered in the photo standing up.
Edward Weston was born March 24th. 1886 in Illinois and died January 1st. 1958. He was a major American photographer and was well known for his carefully composed, sharply focused images and natural forms, landscapes and nudes. Some of his most famous photos where taken of rocks and trees at Point Lobos, California. Near where he had lived for many year. Other than being a famous photographer he was also an Olympic archer at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics.
Taken at the Evolution Store, Science & Art in Soho, New York.
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