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September 5, 2014.
With textures from Shadowhouse Creations. Thanks again, Jerry.
This shot probably would have been better if the shells weren't so dirty. Because they are so small and delicate, it's hard to get them clean without damaging or losing one or two. I tried the Photoshop healing brush, but there's just too much to "clean". I decided that natural was better, in this case.
See previous photos for explanations on size and found location.
Shell Eco-marathon Asia - the Urban Concept class. Over several days, teams make as many attempts as possible to travel the furthest on the equivalent of one litre of fuel. Cars drive a fixed number of laps around the circuit at a set speed. Organisers calculate their energy efficiency and name a winner in each class and for each energy source. (photo by Ben Cho)
I was in Florida briefly over the weekend -- not too many photo opportunities (time constraints), but I did manage to wander down an isolated beach.
These shells were tiny -- the sand grains give a sense of scale -- and each one was perfectly formed.
Activists hang under the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon, July 30, 2015, In an attempt to block the Shell leased icebreaker, MSV Fennica from passing under the bridge to join Shell's Arctic drilling fleet.
African Beads:
;The earliest Africans made beads as “fetishes”, charms, talisman and amulets for protection and adornments. The first materials were shell, stone, wood, bone, seeds, amber, ivory, teeth, clay, metals, etc. Beads were highly valuable and were also used as currency.
Trading could be done for food, livestock, etc. Beads evolve into a visual language that express rank, spirituality initiation, used to communicate culture value important to the people way of life. African people have had a special relationship with beads for thousands of years.
No other people on the planet used as many beads or in such abundance as African and the importance of the beads was not it shape, color, size or place of manufacture but the value that had been assign to it by privies generations
.Long before the first European return to Africa in the 1400’s century we were adorning ourselves with beads. Many of the beads are becoming increasingly rare and difficult to fine and some are no longer available, as worldwide demand for the beads increases.
" African Trade Beads":
this term typically applies to beads made predominately in European countries from the late 1400s through to the early 1900s, beads traded in Africa, Americas and other counties.
This "trade" period was from the mid 1800s through the early 1900s; millions of these beads were produced and traded in Africa. The Europeans dominated the African bead market.
The Beads were re- introduced to the American market in the late 1960s, by young peace core volunteer returning from Africa.
The beads became associated with the Hippie movement as symbols of love and peace. Today these beads are popular in contemporary jewelry and as collectable items .Millions are in private collections, bead and museums. All beads from the collection of MBAD/ABA African Bead Museum.
Amber Beads:
is worn in the hair of unmarried Fulani girl from herder families. Once married girls would wear large amber beads around their neck and in their hair for protection and style..
Amber was highly prized in some areas as a symbol of status and protection. A beautiful selection of old "Amber" from Mali, Morocco, Guinea and Mauritania are in this collection.
Showing the wide variety of shapes and colors all the beads are in excellent condition. Very old amber is difficult to find, increasingly valuable and highly collectable. Some of the beads were mended and most have been fitted with copper and brass to protect the preparation. All amber is from the collection of MBAD/ABA African Bead Museum.
Shell (1,342 square feet)
7501 Tidewater Drive, Southern Shopping Center, Norfolk, VA
This was originally a Citgo/Royal Mart that was built and opened in 2000.
Activists hang under the St. Johns Bridge in Portland, Oregon, July 30, 2015, In an attempt to block the Shell leased icebreaker, MSV Fennica from passing under the bridge to join Shell's Arctic drilling fleet.
10" 2 layer round and 6" 2 layer square Chocolate Lovers cake with chocolate filling and poured fudge frosting
Blue buttercream waves on top with fondant dolphins and various sized chocolate shells around sides of cake attached with royal icing. The clam and four shells on top are hand sculpted out of fondant. The coral is hand piped out of royal icing, there is luster dust on the fondant pieces.
Aronson Island, Escanaba, MI. Those ladybugs were moving around. I don't know what kind of shells--are these zebra mussels?
I struggle with getting a good photograph of this shell. On the one hand it is incredibly detailed; and yet on the other, it is so hard to get those details to appear in camera. I shot this with back lighting coming through sheers on my workroom window, then layered it in photoshop with another image of a marble tile. A lightroom vignette finished it off.