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Out on a two-lane highway along the Ohio River in Southern Indiana USA, next to a perfect recreation of Smilin' Bob Ryan's used car lot there's a Shell service station from the late 1950's or so.
Why is it here? Who owns and maintains this? I couldn't find out much and left a card for the owner who hasn't contacted me yet...
Title: Spiral Shell
Designer: Toshikazu Kawasaki
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Experimenting with my new studio and taking pictures of shells
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It did me well to see this old service station still in use.
The far two garage bays have been converted into car washes. Cars enter the back and stop inside for the wash and then exit from the front.
Tappahannock, VA
"If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything."
H.G. Wells
A few of the sea shells that I found on Coco Plum Beach on Coco Plum Drive Marathon, Florida.
Coco Plum Beach is a locals beach. It is about 1 mile long and has white clay and shell instead of sand. It is one of the few beaches in the Florida Keys and is my VERY FAVORITE.
Today I worked with RAW files and compared them to the camera original jpgs (I saved each picture as both RAW and JPG). The differences can be subtle or extreme depending on how far you want to take it. The pictures on the left are the adjusted RAW files and the ones on the right are the JPG files.
Helmet, cowry, and scorpion shells.
Sony a6500, Affinity Photo app.
Shell Mex House is situated at number 80, Strand, London, UK. The current building was built in 1930-31 on the site of the Hotel Cecil and stands behind the original facade of the Hotel and between the Adelphi and the Savoy Hotel. Broadly Art Deco in style, it was designed by the architectural firm of Messrs Joseph, with F. Milton Cashmore responsible for most of the work.
Standing 58 m (190 ft) tall, with 537,000 sq ft (49,900 m2) of floor space, Shell Mex House has 12 floors (plus basement and sub-basement) and is immediately recognizable from the River Thames and the South Bank by the clock tower positioned on the south side of the building (flanked by two large, hieratic figures at the south corners). The clock, which was known for a time as "Big Benzene", is one of the biggest in London. It is known for its face looking towards the river, but also has a face looking towards the Strand. In the words of architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner, the building "is thoroughly unsubtle, but succeeds in holding its own in London's river front."
Sea shells on display at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. It is hard to convey the size of these, but these sea shells were HUGE!
Nikon D700 + AF-S Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 VR-II
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Here's a photo from back in early September. The cicadas were leaving their old shells behind, and starting life over in a new skin. It's actually a cool thought...we have the same opportunity if we really want it.
"A strong smell of tobacco and tar rose from the interior, but nothing was to be seen on the top except a suit of very good clothes, carefully brushed and folded. They had never been worn, my mother said. Under that, the miscellany began--a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells. I have often wondered since why he should have carried about these shells with him in his wandering, guilty, and hunted life." Treasure Island
@ the old shell station in Winston-Salem, NC.
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Too bad that periwinkle shells aren't worth anything. If they were I'd be rich. At least they're fun to look at.
Shell (1,342 square feet)
7501 Tidewater Drive, Southern Shopping Center, Norfolk, VA
Originally 2000-built Citgo/Royal Mart
Geysers are hot springs that episodically erupt columns of water. They occur in few places on Earth. The highest concentration of geysers anywhere is in the Upper Geyser Basin at the Yellowstone Hotspot Volcano (northwestern Wyoming, USA).
Shell Spring is a frequently erupting geyser in the Sapphire Group of Yellowstone’s Upper Geyser Basin. It is located about 30 meters west of Jewel Geyser. Bulbous lobes of geyserite surround Shell Spring’s vent, with pustulose to nodulose geyserite along the periphery. Eruptions involve low to moderately low splashing. When water levels are low, a small side vent on the southwestern side of the main vent engages in chugging/rhythmic sputtering. The name “Shell Spring” is in reference to its resemblance to the folds and sulci of the interior surface of an articulated tridacnid bivalve shell (e.g., Tridacna gigas).
Clip 1 - Shell Spring erupting during the mid-afternoon of 6 August 2018.
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Video also posted at:
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2013-2014 video of Shell Spring is posted at:
Shell service station at Koroit, Victoria.
Photo taken on 12 December 2006
(c) Steven G Haby, photographer