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Smile on Saturday - Shells
Came across this hinged mussel shell when walking the dog in Gunners Park, not far from East Beach, Shoeburyness. Picked it up and popped in on a pyracantha bush nearby !!
In most marine mussels the shell is longer than it is wide, being wedge-shaped or asymmetrical. The external colour of the shell is often dark blue, blackish, or brown, while the interior is silvery and somewhat nacreous
(Nacre also known as mother of pearl, is an organic–inorganic composite material produced by some molluscs (like mussels) as an inner shell layer; it is also the material of which pearls are composed. It is strong, resilient, and iridescent)
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coquille
Je suis tombé pour nager
et j'ai laissé mon coeur en arrière
J'ai laissé mon coeur vers le bas
comme la coquille dans le sable
I fell to swim
and I left my heart back
I left my heart down
like the shell in the sand
Odysseus Elytis
I liked how I held this shell up to the sun and the light kind of showed through it. I added a textured background.
On Fine Art America: fineartamerica.com/featured/nautilus-shell-mimi-ditchie.html
Cicada shell; it's a BIG, noisy Cicada year here!
Macro Mondays: Hook
Even after they have left the shell you can see how they climb and hang on with those hooks ... great to use as a temporary badge, too :)
So my old macro lense (Tamron 90mm) died a death, due to fungus :\ Had to replace it, like for like, and I remember why I liked this lense so much in the first place. Slapped a Raynox 250 on it and got this macro of some very small shells. The focus is *ever so slightly* off, but it's good enough.
A tree entirely made up of of beautiful sea shells directly off the beach of Cayo Costa Island, S.W. Florida. (only accessible by boat) We each hung our shell and admired the beautiful wildlife at this wonderful Nature Conservation Reserve.
Originally put up in 1933, along Commonwealth Avenue near its more famous cousin, the Citgo Sign in Kenmore Square, the Spectacular Shell sign today marks the Magazine Shell Station at the corner of Magazine Street and Memorial Drive since 1944 and today uses LED's rather than traditional neon. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Originalmente colocado en 1933, a lo largo de Avenida Commonwealth, cerca de su primo más famoso, el letrero Citgo en Kenmore Square, el letrero Spectacular Shell hoy marca la estación Magazine Shell en la esquina de Calle Magazine y Memorial Drive desde 1944 y hoy usa LED en lugar de neón tradicional. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos.
Part of Savannah, Georgia's rich texture - sidewalks along the river front are composed of tabby - a blend of oyster shells, lime and sand.
This is an old sea shell that I brought back from Baja California, Mexico years ago.
Lighting stuff: Side lighting from a Yongnuo manual flashes in soft boxes on either side of the shell. The strobes and my tripod mounted camera were triggered with a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. For each image in the set, and there are over 1900 of them, I describe how I set up the lighting for that particular shot. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
Other pictures that I've taken of shells can be seen in my creatively titled Shells album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157626043932290
Wide angle macro of small shells on rocks at the beach.
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I wanted to put something with the shells, but couldn't think what. Then I remembered that these 2 buttons are made from shell. One is oyster pearl and the other smokey pearl. They're both over 100 years old and date from the 1890s/1900s. Buttons to the rescue again. :)
For this week's Looking Close... on Friday group theme, Seashells and/or Snail Shells.
Taken with Pentacon Auto 50mm f1.8.
Sitting in a smooth white concrete shell, facing the sea and escaping the relentless rays of the afternoon sun, the acoustics of the waves smatter and splash against the shoreline with a detail that is usually only afforded when standing at the water’s edge. Looking at the sea some 15 or 20 meters away, this experience feels strange… Almost as if the sound of the sea has been brought inland.
"The Acoustic Shells were designed by London studio Flanagan Lawrence to facilitate community events and provide residents of the West Sussex town with a scenic resting spot on the edge of a sunken garden, between the town and a beach facing the English Channel."
www.dezeen.com/2014/07/22/flanagan-lawrence-acoustic-shel...
Big Horn National Forest. US Hwy. 14
In the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming, the waters of Shell Creek plunge 120 ft.
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Our Daily Challenge ~ Shell/s
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