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Photo taken on April 8,2008 around 5:45p.m. Shell Gas Station on Sepulveda and Venice in West Los Angeles. Southern California. This current station design replaced a more traditional smaller designed station that had a main building with island pumps sometime in the 1980s (approximately). The new building is totally self service with a small little booth. No automotive bays, etc.
Self Service Gasoline Station.
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
Shell (closed) [2,781 square feet]
801 N Broad Street, Edenton, NC
This location was built and opened in 1969 and closed in 2013.
This Nautilus shell belonged to Edmond Berube. Photographed in Montreal 1990 by permission of Jean-François Bérubé.
Recent stormy weather pushed a huge number of razor shells onto this beach, where they joined the shell of an old shipwreck.
Hold Shell accountable for the devastating impact that their pollution is having on the human rights of people living in the Niger Delta.
Shell Cottage built in the sand dunes at Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire for the final Harry Potter film.
Macro shot of a sea shell....I just loved the shapes.....the twirls and curves.....doesn't nature produce the most amazing shapes?
The shell logo at my local petrol station.
This is something i want to have another go at.
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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.
Egg shell ornaments
Project blogged here;
www.justcraftyenough.com/2014/10/ic-14-challenge-20-egg-s...
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.
Infrared converted Canon G10
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."
The building was for many years the London headquarters of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd for whom it was originally built. Shell-Mex and BP Ltd was a Joint Venture company created by Shell and British Petroleum in 1932 when they decided to merge their United Kingdom marketing operations.[1] Upon the "Brand Separation" of Shell-Mex and BP Ltd in 1975, Shell Mex House became the head office of Shell UK Ltd, which was Shell's "UK operating company". Changes in the way that Shell was run in the 1990s led to the disposal of the property by Shell. Today, simply known as 80 Strand, most of its floors are occupied by companies belonging to Pearson PLC, who use it as their registered office, including Mergermarket, Penguin Books, Dorling Kindersley, Hamish Hamilton, Michael Joseph and Rough Guides.
Other notable businesses in this building are Groupe Aeroplan, which manages the Nectar loyalty card, and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The entrance of the building, which is set back from the Strand, is through a large gated archway. A green plaque was affixed to the wall just inside the gate in March 2008, proclaiming: The Royal Air force was formed and had its first headquarters here in the former Hotel Cecil 1 April 1918. Below it is a brass plate stating: This plaque was unveiled by the chief of air staff Air Chief Marshall Sir Glenn Torpy KCB CBE DSO ADC to mark the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force.[2]
During the Second World War, the building became home to the Ministry of Supply which co-ordinated supply of equipment to the national armed forces. It was also the home of the "Petroleum Board" which handled the distribution and rationing of petroleum products during the war. It was badly damaged by a bomb in 1940. The building reverted to Shell-Mex and BP Ltd on 1 July 1948 with a number of floors remaining occupied by the Ministry of Aviation (latterly the Board of Trade, Civil Aviation Division) until the mid-1970s.