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You never know what you will find walking the beach. This engine block was slowly being reclaimed by nature. The sea and waves had already filled all the available spaces with small pebbles shells and seaweed. They shone like jewels against the dull metal.
This fishing cottage was transformed into a gorgeous grotto in the 1840s by a plasterer called Alex Bachelor, who also covered the interior walls in shells.
GROUP: MACRO MONDAYS
THEME: SHELL
SUBJECT: PISTACHIOS ON AN EGGSHELL
(not quite 1.75" horizontally including empty spaces)
HAPPY FIRST WEEK OF OCTOBER EVERYBODY!
This cool old Shell Oil Bennett gas pump poses for my camera. It belongs to one of the many very cool collections of neat old stuff at the Florida Flywheelers club.
I added a few little mementos of the beach to my kitchen windowsill.
Processed with Flypaper Textures.
The Fighting Conch Shell is my favorite shell to find on a beach. While at Sanibel my wife had found several on the first few days of our trip with me batting zero, that changed the last day as I found a spot where I was literally grabbing them out of the water.
This was set up and shot on my dining room table. I need to get out more.
You can read about how it was done on my photo blog, Points of Light.
Having just developed two further rolls of Foma Retropan 320, I am still finding myself perplexed by it. It has given some fascinating grainy effects, and wonderful atmosphere, and such frustrating lack of detail. And then, every now and again, it seems to be ... almost perfect for the moment and render a shot beautifully.
It was in the camera for this small cluster of shells on a starkly lit day on Ynyslas, Ceredigion. For full disclosure, I placed the shells on this relatively unmarked sand, having seen the three of them a yard or so away, higgledy-piggledy. It is rare that I pose shots, like this, so I am happily surprised at the result. It wasn't the lens for the job, and I suspected it wasn't the film either. But here we are, and I am surprisingly happy with the result.
And so to the film, with its wildly haloed highlights, and all that. Perhaps it is a combination of things: I haven't practised film photography for nearly five years, and I was lucky rather than skilled, even when 'in practice'. That, added to a tricky and unfamiliar film, and a cavalier attitude to metering and so on.
Whatever the case, this is one of those photographs that makes me wonder if I do like this film, after all; makes me wonder if what it would really suit (speaking only for myself, of course) are studies and still life.
And so, after a long ramble.
Here's to learning.
Ynyslas, September 2020. Pentax ME Super, Pentax-M 28mm f11, Foma Retropan 320 Soft developed in Retropan Special. Cropping and fiddling with contrast in Photoshop 2020.
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Oyster farming is a major business in Whitstable, and there are loads of restaurants and vendors selling them. You can even see the farmers collecting up the oysters each day and bringing them in.
The restaurant belonging to the Whitstable Oyster Company collects up the shells to use as fertiliser (known as cultch), and they stack them up at the back of the restaurant on the beach. The pile is huge and covered in flies, and I couldn't help thinking it was a little bit too close to the outdoor tables of the restaurant!
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Home studio, natural light, manual focus. Californian sand, shell.
Date: 02.10.2009
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free action "Set AllEdges01 AE2"
Just a shell I found at the north sea in Denmark. I don't know what exactly it is but it has to be very common as the beach was full of these. If anybody knows the exact name I'll be happy for a hint.
Strobist: Two Yongnuo 560III speedlites, one on each side of the camera. The one on the left through a Firefly II softbox, the other one bare. I placed a piece of styrofoam on each side of the shell. The speedlites were both triggered by a Yongnuo RF603II remote trigger. Focus stack of 28 pictures.
After a beautiful sunset the sky was colored in faded red and blue . In combination with the calm water, it was a nice background to the sea shells exposed due to low tide.