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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.
The Shell Project - Originally started as an exercise to test some of the features of my new Casio point and shoot camera but turned into an extended study of a single abalone shell. The series shows the results of photographing that shell at different focusing modes and lighting conditions.
Fog rolls in over Shell Beach but sits just high enough to get a glimpse of the setting sun.
Did you manage to find the fisherman? I swear I'm not trying to incorporate an aspect of "Where's Waldo?" into all my pieces. :P
Conchologia indica, being illustrations of the land and freshwater shells of British India. [1870-1876].
London, 1870-1876.
A snail that I found with the little boy I babysit for. We kept him for a while and named him "gary" (like the snail in Spongebob)
many broken shells laying in mostly a large stripes of color, very fun find
Nikon D800 | 20 mm f/2.8 | 1/200 sec at f/4.0 | 20mm | 100 ISO
Today I had decided to go and do the Pevensey Levels and see if I could get round in my hiking boots rather than wellies and I did. So I parked at Hurstmonceaux Church with Amber and we had one of the best days ever with a beautiful blue sky a slight breeze keeping us cool total peace and quiet and absolutely loads to see. So 16 images of a really great day and it is always a shame that I cannot share these days with someone else but thats life and we have to make the best of it Amber had a good day being able to swim when she got hot. I saw 5 people all day and spoke to 3 of them. The first surprise was the Fieldfare singing in the tree top and the day just got better and better. One to remember.
Most of the shellermen I was around kept watch on the drags all the time. It was the best way to keep an eye on how much corn was going to the machine. You sure didnt want to get a machine clogged up with too much wet, shuckey corn. Plus rocks,or metal objects would break many of the cast parts inside the sheller. There were some guys near here who built steel parts for the inside of the sheller. That were much stronger than the cast parts. But you still needed to know what was going into it.