Collection of little shells

Busy busy at the moment so am posting and running! Will catch up soon and hope everyone is well!

I had mulch for the garden delivered and found it was full of these tiny little shells. Great for the calcium content in the soil, and wonderful for some macro photos.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

-Khalil Gibran

Ocracoke Island, NC

Sea shells on Blackpill beach, Swansea.

For Macro Mondays theme; "Natural Shells". HMM !

(This shell measures one and a quarter inches in length, and a half inch wide across it's widest part.)

Canon EOS M50

EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

ƒ/6.3 45.0 mm 1/500 100

Broken Shell - Bridge of Don beach, Aberdeen, Scotland.

I spotted this shell our 'Elephant's Ears' succulent plant on Sunday. I have not seen one like it in our garden before.

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I wanted to put something with the shells, but couldn't think what. Then I remembered that these 2 buttons are made from shell. One is oyster pearl and the other smokey pearl. They're both over 100 years old and date from the 1890s/1900s. Buttons to the rescue again. :)

For this week's Looking Close... on Friday group theme, Seashells and/or Snail Shells.

Taken with Pentacon Auto 50mm f1.8.

This week's FlickrFriday theme is: #InBetween

Two shells and a pebble

Coonarr Beach Bundaberg

Australia

shells still life-panorama with black border

Practice practice practice.

Mary's Shell Cleveleys near Blackpool

Explore #97

Macro Mondays: Small and smaller

Small shell: 1.75 in/4.5 cm across

Smaller shell: 0.375 in/1 cm across

Canon EOS M50

ƒ/14.0 75.0 mm 1/125 160

Close up of a Snail Shell

I shell try (pun) to keep my artsy farty to a limit from now on:-)

Again if you prefer, here is the Bigger Picture

Shells on the beach at Corolla Beach in the Outer Banks of North Carolina

A submission to Sliders Sunday, where over-processing is encouraged. A shell photoshopped into bilateral symmetry.

Bathroom Series 2/5

This display is in our upstairs guest bathroom....

Second photo in the mini series from the Shell-Haus building in Berlin.

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As seen at Wirral Transport Museum. This immediately took me back to my Rochdale childhood on the mid 1960's because I recall petrol pumps like this where my old Dad always bought his petrol for our Morris Traveller. I think the garage was in Water Street but I could be wrong. He worked just around the corner from there in Drake Street managing the Town's Thomas Cook travel agency. I used to love watching the dials go around on the old pumps.

UK, Bournemouth 2008

Macro Mondays theme: High Key

Part of Savannah, Georgia's rich texture - sidewalks along the river front are composed of tabby - a blend of oyster shells, lime and sand.

Shells hang from fishing line decorating the outside of the cafe and museum.

shell in a shell.

An exstinguished sun in a solar system of cold rocks, a crab shell castaway finds a quiet place to wait until his story is found and some day rescued.

A mussel shell on which seaweed has grown that suggests the pareidolia profile portrait of an animal like a sheep.

A new shell case but until now the space is not enough to display all my Sea Shells.