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

-Khalil Gibran

Ocracoke Island, NC

Several mathematical sequences on one shell

Costa de la Luz, Spain

I find this shell today, in my garden

Bit of a tricky photo to do as I had to take a photo of my own foot!!

The shell is sat on an unused tablet screen protector, lit from above with daylight and from below with the flash-light of a phone.

Stacked from 61 images.

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

Balance - keep or put (something) in a steady position so that it does not fall. On a photo small shell balancing on my finger :)

Macro Mondays - theme: "Balance"

Macro Mondays - Natural Shell ... HMM everyone!

Shot yesterday at Shell Beach on the Sonoma County Coast in Northern California

Mary's Shell Cleveleys near Blackpool

Explore #97

Natural Shells

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

Again if you prefer, here is the Bigger Picture

Practice practice practice.

Taken for Macro Mondays "Spiral" theme.

Instant Lab

Impossible B&W 600 Gen 2.0 Film

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

Conchighlie

Bathroom Series 2/5

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

Stockholm, Sweden

one French and two Portuguese

UK, Bournemouth 2008

Alpinia zerumbet

in flower

Alternate take on this week's Macro Mondays theme, Patterns in Nature. Happy Macro Monday!

Extreme macro of a shell with 4x microscope lens

They're the same all over the world, it seems. This one is in California.

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

glaze | Explored 09 April 2017

A response to the prompt "Three Treatments"

Color, B&W, Hand-tinted

Turbo sarmaticus, South Africa (not endangered)

(c) DanielARichman@gmail.com

composite1-4

Processed with CameraBag 2

For Macro Mondays theme - Natural Shells

Walthamstow, East London, UK

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

Explored #191 May 1 2012

Caroline and I took a quick trip down to Greatstone Beach the other day. Spied this little gem.

This is the same shell that I photographed a couple of days ago, and posted on Flickr. For that image I laid it flat and lit it from the side so that I could reveal the shapes and textures. You can see that version of the shell down below in the first comment.

For this version I wanted to show the translucent quality of the shell, and make it glow, by using back lighting. I propped the shell up by leaning it up against a clear glass shot glass. Lighting came from a YN560-II in a Rogue grid behind the shell, and slightly to camera right. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.

I have photographed quite a few shells over the years, and if you like this sort of thing, they're in my creatively named Shells album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290