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This is the first in my new series of images from the German North Sea island Sylt. When I was there last summer, I was constantly taking photos, even when I was relaxing on the beach.
I am still in holiday mode, so I don't comment as much as I usually do. Please bear with me. Things will go back to normal next week.
Enjoy!
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This is a shell that I borrowed from my sister to practice my lighting on.
I first washed it, and then made it a little shiny by rubbing some olive oil on it. I placed it on a mirror, because I figure I get two shells for the price of one that way. The only caveat with using a mirror, is that it shows every speck of dust. I first setup the backlighting by placing a YN560 in a Rogue grid behind the shell, and when I got it adjusted properly, I put light on the front with a YN560-III in a 24 inch soft box at camera left. Both strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I find sea shells to be beautiful objects from nature, and have photographed quite a few of them over the years. Other shells that I have photographed are in my creatively named Shells album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290
When I see a bunch of shells on the beach, I want to hoard them like a pirate. At some point in history, these were money.
This photo is reprocessed from an earlier version here. (justenoughfocus.smugmug.com/Portfolio/Full/i-MVVZNj3) The tools for post-processing are continually being updated, so lately I've been having a little fun going back to old photos to tease out a new look. I don't recall what tools I used back in 2015, but this time, I used the latest version of Skylum's Luminar.
Nevertheless, what got my attention in this scene is all of the shells in the foreground; they must have been deposited after a storm. You can go to a store and buy a bag of shells for ten bucks, or you could just go to the beach and pick them up yourself. Better yet, send me the money, and I'll get them for you! (just kidding)
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Sanibel Island, on Florida's west coast, is famous for its great shell collecting. That's where all these came from - my daughter and family camped there recently, and managed to transport all these shells back home to New York.
The left shell is fresh and I brought it home from a Japanese meal in Kyoto. It is called Abalone or Awabi (Japanese) and is pearl inside with a row of (at least 9) perforations. It is rather light in weight. The right shell is pertrified and very old, I found it at a beach in France. I have no idea what exactly it is, but it could be an oyster type of shell. It is the perfect intermediate between a shell and a stone and rather heavy. The photo gives a reliable impression of the two very different textures of these shells.
Nature is full of contrast between life and death. An impenetrable shell is quiet literally a guaranty for a sheltered life. But what happens when this idea is brought over to buildings? Expansive art mostly.
Seen from Shell Falls National Recreation Trail... off of US highway 14 - Big Horn Scenic Byway, Shell Creek Canyon - Wyoming.
Shell Falls has an average water flow of 3,600 gallons per second.
- trail info
More info: www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/bighorn/recarea/?recid=30868
Summer earrings made from natural shells. It's a pity but when I went on vacations to the seaside I had forgotten it at home )
One of the unexpected delights of the Boneyard Beach at Botany Bay Plantation on Edisto Island in South Carolina... was how people dealt with the "no shelling" rule. Our first reaction to hearing that an isolated beach would not allow you to take any shells was minor sadness, but then we saw that so many of the trees and exposed roots were coated in beautiful shells. It was almost like the shells were ornaments decorating the trees of a tropical island. Sarah found and hung several shells of her own while we were there.
The average conch shell was about 6 inches long and we saw hundreds upon hundreds of them. Take a close look at the tilted little palm tree in the foreground of this picture and you will see what I mean!
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Shell Beach is the closest stretch of sand to downtown Gustavia on St. Barthélemy, Eastern Caribbean.
Along route 14, in Wyoming, Shell Falls displays its beautifully time worn rocks and massive water volume.
Low tide today was at 12.59pm, so I took myself down to the beach for a wander. I spent nearly an hour and half there and it only rained once for a few minutes, but otherwise it was glorious.
Die Marke und Unternehmensgruppe Shell geht zurück auf die Gründung eines Kuriositätengeschäfts im Jahre 1833 im Londoner Eastend durch Marcus Samuel. Ein Großteil seines Handels basierte auf dekorativen Muscheln (engl.: „Shell“), die zur Ornamentierung für Schachteln oder als Sammlerobjekte im Viktorianischen England beliebt waren und von ihm aus Fernost importiert wurden. Der Konzern ist heute in mehr als 140 Ländern aktiv und beschäftigt weltweit rund 83.000 Mitarbeiter.
The Shell brand and group of companies goes back to the founding of a curios shop in 1833 in the East End of London by Marcus Samuel. Much of his trade was based on decorative shells, which were popular for ornamenting boxes or as collector's items in Victorian England and which he imported from the Far East. Today the group is active in more than 140 countries and employs around 83,000 people worldwide.