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Ilford MG RC warmtone paper. Shells from my collection which I started since I was a little girl. Exposed under the Philippine sun last 2013 vacation. :0
When I thought about this subject Thought of shells and then put my brain in gear to try & find 5 different types of shell for the image.
Here we have:-
Base of a 3.7" gun shell case
Abalone shell
Duck egg
Pistachio shell
Big End bearing shell from either a BMW or an Audi engine
#42 Still life with 5 objects for 52 in 2018 challenge
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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We have been collecting these for years with the help of MimiCapeCod. The shells are from all over - Cape Cod to Florida, the Caymans & Mexico to Bermuda.
Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals
London :Reeve, Brothers,1843-1878.
Okay, this photo was totally random! Accidently pressed my shutter when my camera was coming down. However, I think it's an incredibly dope shot.
Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals
London :Reeve, Brothers,1843-1878.
I picked these shells up from the beach on Koh Samui in the summer - I always bring home tokens from in the form of rocks, pebbles or shells. They are scattered around the house on window-sills and table tops bringing memories of past good times.
I set the shutter speed at 2 seconds with a narrow aperture so that the image would show the colours and textures of the shells clearly.
Shell station in Swift Current still displaying the older style sign. Not many of them around any more!
Some of the many shells found while strolling along Little Talbot Island.
FWC photo by Jessica Therriault
The Pontchartrain Club/Town Apartments is a thirteen-story-plus-tower building that, begun as a clubhouse
building styled in an eclectic Mediterranean/Art Deco vein, but left unfinished except for the exterior shell
through the Depression and World War II years, was renovated in a modern style in 1951-53 as the Town
House Apartments.1 The building’s unique exterior design, combining clean-cut modern styling from the
early post World War II era with substantial remnants of the original Mediterranean/Art Deco finishes,
especially in the blocky central tower and upper façade, has made it a highly recognizable landmark in
downtown Detroit over the years. The rectangular-footprint building fills the lot line at the southwest corner
of Bagley Avenue and First Street in downtown Detroit. It is of steel frame and concrete construction faced
in orange and buff colored brick, with much buff Mankato stone trim. The building fronts First Street and
has a centered entrance on the First Street façade. Above the eighth floor, the center part of the building
front is recessed, giving the upper stories broadly U-shaped footprints. This central part of the building rises one story above the sections to either side. Rising above the center of the roof is a two-story tall square tower
that retains its original detailing and steps up in graduated levels in each face. On the western façade of the tower is a large red sign reading “Town Apartments.” The western alley-facing rear façade is finished in buffhued brick without any decorative trim. As part of the 1951-53 renovation the building’s window openings were much renovated, with broader and lower openings typically replacing taller, narrower ones; only in the upper stories, including a central five-story vertical bay window unit, have many of the smaller original window openings remained intact. The 1953 lobby has been renovated but retains two sets of fluted twosided
columns from 1953. All other tenant spaces have been renovated over time, and the total number of
apartment units has been reduced from 319 to approximately 250 today.
The Pontchartrain Club/Town House Apartments meets national register criteria A and C for its
contributions to the social history and architectural development of downtown Detroit. The building is
notable for its unique, visually distinctive appearance in downtown Detroit because of its combining of post-
World War II era modernism inspired by the International style with remnants of the original 1920s eclectic,
Mediterranean and Art Deco styling, including the tower above the main roofline. Initially developed by the
real estate firm Stormfeltz & Loveley as part of their multi-building development plan for Bagley Avenue just
off Grand Circus Park, the building was originally planned to be a clubhouse that, built for the National
Town and Country Club’s Detroit chapter, would include dining and other public rooms, athletic facilities,
including swimming pool and gymnasium, bowling alleys, and overnight accommodations. Planning for the
clubhouse began in 1924, and construction began in September 1928, with Detroit architect Wirt C. Rowland
of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls serving as the lead designer. The club acquired a new name, the Pontchartrain
Club, early into construction of the building, but the project collapsed with the onset of the Depression
during 1929 with only the building’s structural system, walls and roof completed. The building remained a
shell, lacking interior finish and even windows, until 1951-53 when then owners the Bagley-First-State
Corporation completed the building as a 319-unit apartment house. The renovation, which included redesign of the exterior, leaving portions of the elaborate 1920s detailing in the upper portion while refacing the lower portions with a streamlined look of the early post-World War II period, was planned by the Byrne Organization, Inc., architects, of Washington, DC, with Fridy, Gauker, Truscott & Fridy, of Philadelphia, as consulting architects and engineers. The building, as rebuilt in 1951-53 as an apartment building, first labeled
the Town House Apartments, possesses significance under national register criterion A in the context of Social History as one of the first, if not the very first, large post-World War II residential development in Detroit’s downtown area, designed to provide modern amenities for middle and upper middle-class tenants.
The Ponchartrain Club apartments were listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 19, 2016.