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A panorama of a nearly whole iridescent shell I found while walking along Fort Myers Beach. Merged from a series of photos around the shell to create a wider and higher res shot. Biggest challenge as getting the shots before the next wave came in and changed things around.
Photographed with Sony Alpha A6000/ICLE-6000 with FE55-210 lens. Fort Myers Beach, Florida. Photomerged and processed in Adobe Lightroom.
Some great shells from the local clams. Beautiful patterns and colors. Photo taken on the beach of San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
One of the few Shell stations in the Toronto area that has service bays in a modernized ranch station! It's right across the road from Pearson International Airport
London Olympic Park, Stratford, London UK. Cars designed to travel as far as possible with just one litre of fuel apparently.
I always wanted to document this style of Shell gas station in a Bernd and Hilla Becher kind of way. I haven't gotten to this yet, as the subject matter is a hard one to shoot effectively with numerous problems like power lines, lots full of cars (even on Sundays), and surrounding distractions. I did try years ago, but the day I went to shoot the one station I had in mind, I arrived to discover it had been completely torn down the day before. This shot is effectively out of focus...
The unknown story of the broken sea shells collectors
At Uadaypur sea beach (3km from Digha at the Bengal-Orissa state border), hundreds of poor villagers (80% of them are women) gather on a particular time of the day at the peak of the low tide. They all carry a small net basket for collecting broken shells following the line of the waves. When the baskets are half-filled they empty their catch at the beach and go back to the waves again. Finally the shells are packed in bags for selling. After two hours of continuous hard work, two people together can fill only a 30-kg bag selling for INR Rs 30 (USD 50 cents) only.
The shells are rich source of calcium carbonate, use in feeder mainly at the India's growing poultry industry. Also, it has great demand in making the white (lime) paint. Traders and middlemen are always waiting to exploit these poor villagers. They make on-the-spot payment, collect the bags and transport them to the local market for a hefty profit of 300% by selling each bag for at least Rs 100 (USD $ 2).
I personally talked to the shell collectors and found no Govt. intervention to stop this exploitation. The state government can easily intervene by forming a cooperative and collecting the shells themselves by their nodal agencies with a reasonable price.
Udaypur Sea Beach, Bay of Bengal
Images of Bengal, India