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Trying the B/W setting on the camera...interesting...this is almost straight out of the camera...may try pp in Topaz and see what can be achieved.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding
- Kahlil Gibran
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Sliced Nautilus shell showing inside chambers.
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sail the unshadowed main,--
The venturous bark that flings
On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings
In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings,
And coral reefs lie bare,
Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl;
Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
And every chambered cell,
Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell,
As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell,
Before thee lies revealed,--
Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed!
Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year's dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee,
Child of the wandering sea,
Cast from her lap, forlorn!
From thy dead lips a clearer note is born
Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn;
While on mine ear it rings,
Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
"The Chambered Nautilus"
-Oliver Wendall Holmes
A beautifully designed Shell lapel badge showcasing Edward Mcknight Kauffer's 'oiling the joints' automaton figure that debuted during Shell's 1930s 'Lubrication by Shell' campaign. This automaton logo was so appropriate for an automotive lubrication product and was applied to a plethora of garage products such as Shell oil cans, oil funnel pourers, oil workstation units and grease cans. Kauffer used this design in prototype form in the book he illustrated for Frederick Birkenhead's 'The World in 2030 A.D.' (1930)
Kauffer was a prestigious 20th Century graphic artist who designed over 140 posters for London Underground, and later London Transport. He experimented with a number of styles that touched upon futurism, cubism and vorticism. He also excelled in his work for Shell, creating a number of powerful posters throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
Photography, layout and design: Argy58
(This image also exists as a high resolution jpeg and tiff - ideal for a variety of print sizes
e.g. A4, A3, A2 and A1. The current uploaded format is for screen based viewing only: 72pi)
Shell on Badalona Beach (Barçelona).
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Found in a bag while clearing our loft! The cowries and other tiny shells came from the beach at North Berwick in the east of Scotland.
Title: Navel Shell
Designer: Tomoko Fuse
Paper: 15cm x 15cm
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Shells, Giacomo Giuliani
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