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The shells and the straw mat were something I found on my parents' balcony when I was visiting many years ago. I'd just finished building my Bender, and I was always itching to use it. Because the balcony was almost always in shadow, light tended to be directional and highly diffuse. The combination worked well.
I stopped down a fair bit for this one, and seem to recall the exposure time was in the many seconds range. I intentionally over-exposed it to get a high key exposure on the white shell.
TMX 100, Fuji 150mm lens, Bender 4x5
Built in 1933, this 68-foot high piece of history is displayed on Magazine Street in Cambridge along the Charles River. Although the station is still pumping gas, the sign has been not been illuminated for over two years. So many of the bulbs burned out that it appeared to spell the word “HELL”, and offended residents petitioned for it to be shut off. (#25 of 100 in the Boston Signage Project)
Hardly anyone was on the beach this morning except for a family of four, each bent over holding a bag, collecting sea shells.
Shell (closed) [2,781 square feet]
801 N Broad Street, Edenton, NC
Built and opened in 1969, closed in 2013
This was a difficult shot to get. It was a windy day and the Shell sign wanted to pivot around; this is one of those original rotating signs, but I doubt it's supposed to do it on its' own like that!
Mexico. I collect seashells and sometimes pay a good amount of money for a particularly beautiful specimen. While driving through a small commercial fishing village on the Pacific coast, I was amazed to see the discarded conch shells piled everywhere along the beach. Unaware of their market value, the fishermen didn't know that they could earn more money if they sold their garbage than from fishing.
An activist in a polar bear hat in Discovery Green Park outside Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center, Dec. 5, 2012, to stage a "Winter Wasteland" in protest of Shell’s 2013 Arctic drilling plan. Greenpeace, Alaska Wilderness League, Sierra Club, Environment Texas, and Environmental Action protesters join with Santa Claus and a troupe of polar bears to do battle with a fake oil spill as Shell and its colleagues at the Arctic Technology Conference plan for a real Winter Wasteland in America’s Arctic Ocean.
I'm sure there is a scientific term for this structure, but it looks like a fin, so shell fin it is...
This wonderful piece of natures palate is a once off original and shall never be repeated again once the tide moves in.
These are believed to have been the preferred light source for early cave dwellers: a shell, packed with moss that had been soaked in animal fat. The fat burns with the moss acting as a wick; the shell makes it possible to carry around. (For the sake of sensitive modern noses, the guide used candle wax instead of animal fat, but the principle is the same.)
We were surprised just how much light these actually gave off. After demonstrating how well they worked, the guide then extinguished the flames, to let us see how dark 'really dark' can get (which is very). It didn't worry me at all, living away from streetlights and such things; but I fancied that I could sense a few people in our party tensing.
An einer Shell-Tankstelle haben wir Aufkleber angebracht, um auf die Problematik der
Ölbohrungen in der Arktis hinzuweisen. (c) N. Schmidt/Greenpeace Münster
Discovered in 1835, Margate's Shell Grotto is an astonishing find; 21 metres of winding passages decorated with 4.6 million shells. The walls are covered in images of gods and goddesses, trees of life and patterns of whelks, mussels and oysters. Some think it is an ancient Pagan grotto, others that it is simply an ornate Regency folly; but with no definitive explanation or history, the Shell Grotto is Kent's greatest mystery.