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Cool looking little old Shell Tanker truck made from what looks to be an old Ford Model A. Taken at the 2020 Florida Flywheelers show.
Artist Name: Zuzana Spendelova
Challenge Name: CPM Challenge 1306 Sea Shells
Category: Beginner/ Student
Email: florigera@yahoo.co.uk
Derwent Coloursoft pencils on A4 Canson sketchbook paper
This piece was followed with so many bad coincidences, that it's already a win it's finished and uploaded...
First I meant to do it on Canson Mi-Teintes sand paper, but my KIN pencils just didn't want to work on this surface. So I put out my new 24 pc tin of Coloursofts. They are lot drier in compare to the creamy KIN pencils, but I decided to try them out. Although the test in the sketchbook went ok, I failed again on Mi-Teintes. The time was running out, so I just finished the piece in the sketchbook...
There was a special reason why I didn't want to miss out this month's challenge.. it's exactly a year since I entered a CPM challenge for the very first time and I wanted to compare my entries and see the progress - if there's some ;) - I made in the last year :)
The flint Shell House at Bicton Park contains an international collection of seashells from around the world. The area is accessed by a maze of footpaths weaving their way through the ferns. Exotic tree-ferns now grace an almost primeval rocky glade, created at the start of the Victorian 'fern fever' era.
Bicton Park Botanical Gardens is a tourist attraction on the southern part of the former Bicton estate. The landscaped park includes historic glasshouses, a countryside museum, the Bicton Woodland Railway train ride, nature trail, maze, mini golf, indoor and outdoor children's play complexes, restaurant and shop. The gardens, which originated in c.1730 are Grade I listed.
The four glasshouses at Bicton Gardens were designed to re-create the natural environment of plants from different continents. The Palm House was built in the 1820s to a curvilinear design, using 18,000 small glass panes in thin iron glazing bars. The Tropical House is the home of the Bicton orchid (Lemboglossum bictoniense), named after the Park where it first bloomed in 1836. The Arid House features cacti and other succulents growing in a naturalistic desert landscape.
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A macro shot of a snail shell I took in recognition of Macro Monday. Have a great week.
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7 Days of Shooting: Week #26 - More Than 10. Macro Monday
These tiny shells are about 1/2 inch in real life. :)
The drive from 58 to shell creek road was filled with photographers :) It was great to see everyone out enjoying the scenery, there are actually like 5-6 people in this shot...amazing fields of Tidy tips and Baby blue eyes :)
Shell Creek winds it way out of the Western side of the Bighorn Mountains, along the Bighorn Scenic Byway. Exposed rock in this area was formed 330-360 million years ago and exposed during the Laramide Orogeny ~70 million years ago (the Bighorns were pushed up and into existence during this time.)
The steep walls of Shell Canyon rise straight up on either side of the creek and road.
More information on the Bighorns and Shell Creek from Wikipedia.
Just an old, worn shell that I came across at the Blue Waters Inn, on the island of Tobago, West Indies. Couldn't resist taking a shot or two, taken on 13 March 2017. A few decades ago, I used to love collecting shells in the Far East and Middle East. Now, I believe you are not allowed to take shells in many locations around the world.
Bear with me, everyone, as I think I am going to have to post 5 (I posted 6 the first two days) photos from my trip each day, otherwise it will take me many months (years?) to get them on to Flickr. Obviously, no comments expected, unless you happen to like one photo in particular. Actually, I am so disappointed with my photos - never have so many photos come out blurry, many totally blurry and no use at all. I'm not sure why, though the light was often really bad and maybe the humidity had some effect. For some species, I will be posting awful shots, just for the record.
It will take me forever to do much of a write-up about this trip, but I hope to add an extra bit of information about each photo to the very simple, basic description. Right now, I'm not quite sure where I was and when, lol! We arrived back in Calgary on 21 March 2017, and I have to get myself somewhat organized and need to see to all sorts of important things. Instead, of course, I have been stuck in front of my computer all day, each day : ) Totally dead beat after such a busy time away, dealing with extremely early mornings and hot, humid weather. Those of you who know me well, know that I am a dreadful night-owl, so getting up around 5:15 am was an absolute killer. Also, heat and humidity don't agree with my body, so each trip out was quite exhausting. In the morning of 21 March, we had to get up around 2:00 am, as we had such an early flight (5 and a half hours) from Trinidad to Toronto - followed by a four-hour flight back to Calgary. On our very first day, we had three flights in a row, as we flew from Calgary to Toronto, then Toronto to Port of Spain on Trinidad, from where we had a short flight to the island of Tobago.
This adventure was only the second holiday (or was it actually my third?) of any kind, anywhere, that I have had in something like 30 or 35 years! The other holiday was a wonderful, one-week holiday with my great friends from England, Linda and Tony, when we went down south to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons in September 2012. I have had maybe half a dozen weekends away, including to Waterton National Park, which have helped keep me going.
Six birding/photographer friends and I decided that we would take this exciting trip together, spending the first two or three days on the island of Tobago and then the rest of the time at the Asa Wright Nature Centre on the nearby, larger island of Trinidad. We decided to take a complete package, so everything was included - flights (we were so very lucky to get Black Friday prices, which were 50% off!), accommodation at both places, all our food, and the various walks and day trips that we could chose from. Two of my friends, Anne B. and Brenda, saw to all the planning of flights and accommodations, which was so very much appreciated by the rest of us. I could never have done all this myself!
What a time we had, seeing so many beautiful things - and, of course, everything was a lifer for me. Some of these friends had visited Costa Rica before, so were familiar with quite a few of the birds. There was a lot more to see on Trinidad, so we were glad that we chose Tobago to visit first and then spend a longer time at Asa Wright. It was wonderful to be right by the sea, though, at the Blue Waters Inn on the island of Tobago.
The Asa Wright Nature Centre on the much larger island of Trinidad is such an amazing place! We stayed in cabins up or down hill from the main building. Really, one doesn't need to travel away from the Centre for birding, as so many different species visit the Hummingbird feeders that are right by the huge, open veranda, and the trees of the rain forest high up a mountainous road. The drive up and down this narrow, twisting, pot-holed road was an adventure in itself! Never would I ever do this drive myself - we had a guide who drove us everywhere in a van/small bus. I had read many accounts of this road, lol! There was just enough room for two vehicles to squeeze past each other, and the honking of horns was almost continuous - either to warn any vehicle that might be coming around the next bend or as a sign that drivers knew each other. The drive along this road took just over an hour each way.
I'm already missing the great food that was provided every single day at Asa Wright and the Rum Punch that appeared each evening. I never drink at all, so I wasn't sure if I would even try the Punch - glad I did, though, as it was delicious and refreshing. Breakfast, lunch and dinner were all served buffet-style, with a huge variety of dishes from which to choose.
Shell-stasjonen på Hylla mens Sellæg-familien drev den. Her var det også dagligvarebutikk. Namsos Sparebank hadde filial her også. Bildet ble utgitt som postkort først på 1980-tallet.
Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office at the Shell Centre in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest energy company and the second-largest company in the world measured by revenues and is one of the six oil and gas "supermajors". It is vertically integrated and is active in every area of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It also has major renewable energy activities, including in biofuels, hydrogen, solar and wind power.
It has operations in over 90 countries, produces around 3.1 million barrels of oil equivalent per day and has 44,000 service stations worldwide. Shell Oil Company, its subsidiary in the United States, is one of its largest businesses.
Its primary listing is on the London Stock Exchange and it is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It has secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange.
These little molluscs are about 5mm long and always congregate in large
numbers at low tide. For Macro Mondays, Just Textures
Taken on 22 July 2012 and uploaded 3 March 2025.
The Shell logo will be familiar certainly to older people, F1 fans and motorists generally - I belong to one of these groups (I'm officially elderly) and it's lodged in my memory. This is a rusting oil drum seen at Swanscombe Peninsula, close to the Broadness Creek boating community. Nature is growing over it.
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A beach made entirely of zebra mussel shells.
Taken in Brussels, Wisconsin.
Shot with the Canon 5D Mark III using a 17-40 F4 L and a Lee .9 GND
Some of my wife's collection of shells. These reside in a glass jar on a side table in the dining room.
- Scallop shell
Semipallium dianae (Crandall, 1979)
Found: Okinawa -Japan
Depth 85-165feet
Nikon D90 105macro
Aquarium shot- through glass
Shelling the Batteries at Galveston, by the United States War Steamer South Carolina, on Monday Afternoon, 5th August. Line engraving published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1861, depicting USS South Carolina in action against Confederate shore batteries at Galveston, Texas, in August 1861.
Shell Sign
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The shell sign has received a facelift and what a clear day to get a shot of it. Pretty bold colors right out of the camera!
Arcade at the foot of Shell Mex House, Savoy Place, London WC2. Messrs Joseph architects, 1930-31.
Sony A7 + Canon FDn 50mm f/1.4