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Youhei was a cool Japanese surfer/diving dude who I met on a West Australia tour. On the way back we stopped at Shell Beach, Denham, which as the name suggests, is a beach made entirely of billions of tiny shells and is one of only two in the world. It stretches for approximately one-hundred and ten kilometres and is between seven and ten metres deep.
It was very bright here and I was thankful for my Oakleys.
For this photo I asked Youhei to pose with my shades to get the reflection shot.
Pookie has a thing for sweet potatoes. By "has a thing" I mean if sweet potatoes were a woman we would leave me, marry her, and make babies. He also has a thing for roasted garlic. Maybe not a baby-making thing, but close enough.
When we saw "sweet potato hash with roasted garlic" we just knew it was The One. Little did we know that The One would be so good that we've spent the last three weeks seriously considering driving the 5 HOURS back to Shell Beach just to eat this. What kind of crazy person would even consider that!?
The bears at Shell Beach, WA. The beach is literally made of shells. No sand, just millions of little white shells, which are aesthetically pleasing but not so much fun for walking barefoot on. Shells between your toes aren't comfy.
Anybody want to take a guess where this was taken? A very low tide enabled me to explore parts of this beach that I never had before! I love seeing something new in my own backyard.
D7000 | 18mm | f/ 16 | single exposure | 8 secs | ISO 100
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Shell beach tide pools, winter low tides provide great access to these amazing organisms. Pastel colors are luminescent and look like they glow.
Shell Beach / Calif / Central Coast
Taken on a very nice evening in Shell Beach, the same day as "Rare Skies". Spending the evening walking along the wet sand and shallow tides forgetting about most things, especially the time. The photo earns its handle because I stayed out on the beach a little to late. Its actually a small cove, flanked on all sides by the high cliffs and mostly hidden and usually accessible at low tide. In the distance where the cliff meets the sea the tide had come in way to fast and I had to fight the pull of the vigorous tide as it slammed into me and threatened to pull me into deeper waters and for a moment I thought I was actually going to be pulled out. I gracefully threw my tripod on the rocks above (its durable), where I wanted to be- and slung my bag around my shoulder and waited for the tide to momentarily recede but the water was so far in that there really was no receding at all. Luckily my aquatic shoes held against the slippery rocks and I was able to get to safety. Not after getting drenched from my chest down and dosed with some adrenaline and a drowned cell phone. I should have known better to stay out at this spot late, for I have shot here numerous times but... nobody is perfect. Lesson learned.
Nikon D5100
18-55 Nikor @ 18mm
f/ 14
13 secs
Cokin Grad
Slik 500HD w/ remote shutter
Shell Beach / California / Central Coast
A new take on an old photo taken more than a year ago. The original has a very violet tone to it from the cokin filter I used. I tried to take out that overall violet color and give it more of a natural look but I'm still not sure if I have succeeded. Maybe I should just give the photo a rest and let it be. :)
You can view the original photo here.
www.flickr.com/photos/mike_vieira213/4708469672/in/set-72...
This is the view from the back yard of the Shell Beach House our friend Sheila rented. She invited us to dinner, to enjoy the hot tub and to let the doggies play in the yard.
Shell Beach at the Ness of Duncansby, no more than a Mile from John O'Groats car park, yet even the Summer, when John O'Groats is busy this beach will be quiet. Shows how little we are prepared to walk from the comfort ot our tin boxes!
Shell Beach, Ness of Duncansby, Caithness, Scotland.
Charly was our first dog. She was Husky mixed with Golden Retriever (Goberian).
When diagnosed with cancer after her splenectomy they gave her 2 weeks to two months at most. She gave us 4 great months and was even able to surf the waves in shell beach one last time.
Shell Beach / Central Coast / Calif
Off the bat, I'm not crazy about this composition. But I wanted a high contrast scene for this moment, because this is HDR. It is a four image composite which is probably close to the bare minimum of how many pictures are recommended for blending a scene like this together. Also, I probably could have widened my exposure levels. I think they were 1 stop or 2 apart per photo. All in all, I consider myself a novice at High Dynamic Range processing but look forward to using it more often. :)
This was processed first in Photomatix Pro 4.0 then re-opened in CS3 where it was shrunken down and sharpened for the web and added the watermark.
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Charly was our first dog. She was Husky mixed with Golden Retriever (Goberian). Charly loved Shell Beach tide pools.
birds got friendly w photographer
after years of frequent swim visits .
shell beach, marin county,
tomales bay state park .
golden gate / global biosphere reserve network .
www.nps.gov/pore/learn/nature/golden_gate_biosphere_reser... .
[edited · orig from friend s.wiseman]
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Charly was our first dog. She was Husky mixed with Golden Retriever (Goberian). Swimming, sniffing, hunting for sea birds.
These two gulls acted as mates, they were searching for a nesting spot, walking together and bobbing heads. Then one found a tasty treat and brought it up. They seemed to be sharing amicably until the sharer attacked the other. It's as if suddenly the urge to be greedy overcame the urge to share with a mate. I don't believe this was a mating behavior, the one that was attacked was driven off the cliff!