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My shell and sea star collection ... some gifts, some bought and some found on the beach. I have accumulated enough now to make a nice display in a glass bowl.
"She sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells."
Shell cottage erected in the sand dunes at Freshwater West used in the filming of the new Harry potter film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, to be released in two parts in 2010 and 2011
As i got lots of comments already ,i upload some more interesting specimens.
My second explore i m surprised. # 175
Thank you jacilluch for the link.
Spondylus barbatus
Bearded Thorny Oyster
Strobist: SB26 camera right at 1/64 zoom set to 50 with a 1/4 CTO. Minolta 4000AF camera left and high set to 1/8 zoom set to 50 with a 1/4 CTO. Triggered with CyberSyncs.
Murex pecten The Venus Comb Shell
I always imagined that this shell would move with the larger end in the foreground being the front, however I saw a video of the living sea snail gliding beneath this shell , with the narrow end being the front. Therefore the shell is definitely the animal's defence against predators, and after accidentally standing on one of these shells in bare feet, can tell you the spines are needle sharp and incredibly strong. I was able to pull the shell out of the bottom of my foot and not a spine had broken. So, as well as being very decorative, the shell serves it's purpose well.
I was on a photo shoot for a cookbook. As I waited for the next item to be prepared for me to shoot, I noticed these egg shells on this glass plate. I was taken with how interesting they looked, and made a few exposures. I received a few questioning looks and comments ("Just WHAT are you going to do with those shells?"). I just smiled and said, "trust me."
Hula themed first birthday. Cake and cupcakes are vanilla chocolate marbled cake. All decorations hand made. Mold used for the shells
"The Sound Shell was commissioned in 1967 by the Rosebud Foreshore Committee from the local architect Ronald Murcott and was completed in 1969. Rosebud had become a popular holiday camp site and recreation area, and the sound shell was part of a series of improvements made along the foreshore in the 1960s. Murcott had an interest in the unusual roof forms popular in the post-war period and their potential to span large spaces. He had already designed a church and a car park with roofs in the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid (or hypar), a special form of double-curved shell, the geometry of which is generated by straight lines, which makes it fairly easy to construct. He used the same form for the sound shell, in this case of reinforced concrete construction. Murcott was assisted in the design by the engineer Dr John Brotchie of the CSIRO Division of Building Research, an expert in the analysis of concrete shell structures, and J L van der Molen, a local pioneer in the application of computer technology to the design of concrete structures. The builder was Trevor J Luck.
The Rosebud Sound Shell has a free-standing reinforced concrete shell in the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid above a stage on one side and several enclosed rooms (formerly toilets and storage facilities) at the rear. The roof plan is roughly a diamond-shape, measuring 23 metres by 21 metres. The thickness of the shell varies from 762 mm along the central axis to 508 mm where the lower corners touch the ground. On the stage side the roof rises to a height of 8.8 metres and is slightly lower, 4.9 metres at the rear. The walls below the roof are of concrete block construction. These have now been painted with murals. Since the structure was completed barriers have been added at the lower corners to prevent access to the roof."
Source: Victorian Heritage Database
My son hunting for shells just after dawn on Sanibel Island at low tide. Best viewed on black here: 'Shelling at Dawn' On Black
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Tiny shell photographed with a microscope using a 2,5x objective. Apprx 6 panels stitched in microsoft ICE. Had to drastically reduce the image size for uploading.
A present from my cat, who brought the shell inside stuck to her fur, so i realised i had a new subject to shoot. :)
Hi all...hope you all had a great day...
I took this down in Sandymount about 4pm one cold Monday in January on my little Sony Camera
I love my Sony Nex5 camera the quality is super and its great when
I don't want to bring my big camera out with me...
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