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Little 6" white chocolate mud cake, coated in white chocolate ganache and then covered in fondant. The shells are gumpaste.
Looking down on the tip of a pearlescent conical seashell. It is so perfect in its pearly spiral.
Click here to see side shot.
Taken with iPhone 3GS with this home-made macro lens from a disposable camera.
Abalone shells have such a terrific texture and yield such a fantastic "meat" when prepared properly.
Got gas on the way home. Took a picture of the overhang thing (canopy!) covering the pumps. I'm sure it has some architectural name.
For future on-the-porch-in-rocking-chairs coversation, the price for standard unleaded was $3.09 a gallon today.
i have compose rules of third in viewfinder, but it not in ROT after developing
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Tronoh, Ipoh. MY
Mary's Shell"" draws photographers from far and wide to England's Cleveleys Beach. Share if you'd like to visit this spectacular sculpture.
Captured by Phil Norton with an OM-D E-M1 and M.ZUIKO 7-14mm f2.8 PRO lens.
made with a cedar twig found in the yard, fingering weight merino, some beachcombed shells and feathers, and a bit of hand dyed wool.
happy bokeh wednesday.
love the 'waves' in this gift from the sea!
(i know it isn't shell saturday but i couldn't resist the light...)
Fishing theme cupcakes for a friend's 42nd birthday. When I asked him what he wanted on his cake, he said: "fish, crabs and big boobs!!"
I was going to do a big cake but wimped out because of the heat and humidity at the moment!
Chocolate mud cupcakes with raspberries, coated in dark choc ganache and covered in fondant. The first time I have covered cupcakes with fondant. Cupcakes are so fiddly!
All decorations are also fondant and edible.
We're off to the beach for a BBQ - hope they survive!
An ancient piece of beach, location unknown. These are pretty recent-looking shells, so I'm assuming this wasn't from the time of brachiopods...
The inside of each Abalone Shell, away from where it attaches to the shell, is polished by the mollusc itself as it moves.
#13 Shell/s for 116 pictures in 2016
The Shell Grotto, Pontypool | Groto Cregyn
The Shell Grotto was originally constructed circa 1794, although many improvements were made by Molly, the wife of Capel Hanbury-Leigh around 1830.
Molly is credited with the interior design and it is known that she subscribed to the publication "Follies and Grottoes".
The Shell Grotto is circular, built of rough stone with a conical stone tiled roof. The ceiling is vaulted and supported by six pillars decorated with stones and shells. The floor is reputed to be made from deer bones but closer inspection reveals a variety of bones and teeth from a number of different animals.
The Shell Grotto was always a popular attraction for sightseers but was, unfortunately, allowed to fall into decay around thirty years ago. However, it's structure rose from the ashes in 1996 when it was painstakingly restored with funding from Cadw and European Aid.
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
There are a few casuarina trees on the coast around Diggers where people have placed shells. Some of the days were quite smoky but this day wasn't one of them :-) Explored briefly #498
On a sturdy piece of wire shaped in a heart I threaded chunky broken shells from the beach. It's going to move in from of a window soon!
Collected at Grandview the other night. Remind me of angel's wings. Harsh shadow, yes, but had to shoot it then & there!
The Shell-leased icebreaker MSV Fennica passes through the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Ore., July 30, 2015, after police removed 3 of 13 activists who climbed under the bridge In an attempt to prevent the ship from passing under the bridge to join Shell's Arctic drilling fleet.
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After the heavy seas there are piles of shells on parts of the beach. I always find them a challenge to my imagination