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The story goes that in 1835 Mr James Newlove lowered his young son Joshua into a hole in the ground that had appeared during the digging of a duck pond. Joshua emerged describing tunnels covered with shells. He had discovered the Shell Grotto, its walls decorated with strange symbols mosaiced in millions of shells. Is it an ancient pagan temple? A meeting place for some secret cult? Nobody can explain who built this amazing place, or why, but since its accidental discovery visitors from all over the world have been intrigued by the beautiful mosaic and the unsolved mystery.
A Christmas tree made of shells and left on Howe Street in Bay Head, NJ. The shells are left blank and then signed by visitors to the beach with their names and, or a message. Adorned with a starfish at the top, smaller red shells throughout the tree.
Walking along the beach at Mellon Udrigle in the Scottish Highlands, the dawn light side lit the large number of shells of which this is a small section.
I decided it would be easier to capture the detail of the shells I found on the beach once I got them home. It took me a month, but I guess timing had to be right. So far, this one is one of my favorites.
A few shots of our new set of four 1957 Herman Miller fiberglass arm shell chairs with metal glides, on zinc H bases. Two retain the foil label from that year.
Shot on a piece of plate glass, with black seamless taped to the bottom. Shaped hole cut to allow light to pass through. Glass was set on a 20" long piece of 12" diameter concrete form tube (Home Depot). I lined the tube with silver lame fabric from Jo-Anns, set it on top of a silver reflector fabric and suspended a 580 EX (@ 1/8th power ) 10" up and aimed down.
A 2nd 580 EX at 1/128th power on a light stand with Honl 20 deg grid is positioned camera right to bring back some of the texture of the shell.
A relationship to last a lifetime! I thought it amazing when I found a heart in this shell, kind of like not looking for love - it falls right into your life. Some things are simply amazing others da ja vue..
Today folks from Philadelphia's The Olde Bar traded their aprons for waders to see how our estuary science team recycles oyster shells. They spent the morning touring our living shoreline at the DuPont Nature Center, located on the Delaware Bayshore near Milford, Delaware. Together they learned how shells destined for landfills can instead grow wild oyster reefs. These, in turn, shield wetlands from waves and filter our water. What a great way to celebrate Seafood Month this "Oystober!"
For scale, the largest shell is 5cm long. These were found at Towradgi beach, where they are quite common. Large cone shell creatures can give quite a sting, even when washed up on a beach but I never seemed to have a problem with these little ones. Mostly, I see the dark brown motley kind but occasionally I see a white one. I find it interesting the way some of the cones are pointy. They tend to wash up on rough sea beaches with a lot of pebbles, so they are often damaged.
That's right, besides having maybe the most spectacular sunsets I've seen.
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The best shelling is found on the beaches of Sanibel and Captiva Islands. The islands rank tops in the world for shelling because of geography. Sanibel Island does the twist as it parades along the coastline among a string of other more orderly, straight-and-narrow islands. The east-west torque of Sanibel’s south end acts like a shovel scooping up all the seashells that the Gulf imports from The Caribbean and other southern seas.
The abundance and variety of shells have made Sanibel and Captiva Islands shell-obsessed. People come from all over the world, drawn by the song of the seashell. They parade along the sands doubled over in a stance that’s been dubbed the Sanibel Stoop. Every March, they gather to compare and appreciate shell collections and shell art at the annual Sanibel Shell Fair & Show. (From www.sanibel-captiva.org)
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Being the first day of the new year my mind has started to wonder to the summer. Being totally ignorant of UK shell life I recognise this seashell but are unable to identify it.