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Do shells have age rings like trees? My co-worker brought some old barnacled shells into work and some of them were just amazing to look at.
We use mainly 4 type of shell to make the parts.
1. MOP (mother of peral)
2. Abalone Shell (black shell)
3. Purple Shell
4. Pink Shell
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2. Flower (rose, tulipe, lily)
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Submitted by Katya Small to the 2012 myPQB Story Contest - A shell on Rathtrevor Beach (Vancouver Island, BC).
En esta oportunidad, transportamos un imponente shell de 6,70 metros de diámetro sobre una plataforma portante de 4 líneas hidráulicas modulares.
Ello implica un importante desafío en materia de transporte terrestre por cuanto, como podrán observar en la galería de fotos que compartimos, debemos atravesar ciudades y pueblos y surcar carreteras de asfalto, de ripio y caminos de montaña.
One of Ruth's shell images printed small, 6.5x4.5, It was probably a 5x7 negative contact print when she was still using view cameras. It is beautifully lit and arranged on wood that has a similar texture and pattern. She loved seeing those connections in nature. Her apartment was filled with natural artifacts. Please see the notes under the other shell photograph in this collection.
Shelling Hill beach is a place I have very strong off memories from childhood - many many summer days were spent on this beach, paddling, playing... picnicking.... I wouldn't have wanted to be doing any of the above this morning - It was Baltic!! The tide was very far out when I arrived just before 7am and so I though I'd use the rock pools to create a focal point for a mediocre sun rise - once again hidden behind a thick bank of low lying cloud. I used the Pentax K5 and K10 in rotation - The K5 was loaded with the Sigma 8-16 and the K10 was loaded with the Sigma 18-50 2.8.
see more shots on my Blog: anthonycranneyphotography.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/week-9-o...
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by G. Lelong of 21, Rue St.-Martin, Amiens. The card, which has a divided back, was printed by Catala Frères of Paris.
By 1916 the Basilica had sustained immense structural damage, along with the loss of its entire roof.
To see the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Brebières before it was destroyed during the Great War, please search for the tag 56ALB66
Visé Paris No. 205
The card bears the imprimatur 'Visé Paris' followed by a unique reference number. This means that the image was inspected and deemed by the military authorities in the French capital not to be a security risk.
'Visé Paris' indicates that the card was published during or soon after the Great War.
Abba Eban
"History teaches us that men and
nations behave wisely when they
have exhausted all other alternatives".
This was said during a speech in London UK on 16th. December 1970 by Abba Eban (1915-2002), an Israeli diplomat and writer.
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
With an average length of two feet, that number of shells if laid end to end would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres). That's over two and a half times round the Earth. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
A huge mine under the German lines did not explode during the battle of Messines in 1917. The mine, containing several tons of ammonal and gun cotton, was triggered by lightning in 1955, creating an enormous crater.
The precise location of a second mine which also did not explode is unknown. Searches for it are not planned, as they would be too expensive and dangerous. For more on this, please search for "Cotehele Chapel"
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
This work by cooper gary is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License. If you use this photo, please credit as "photo by cooper gary" with a link-back to this page on Flickr.
The Shell Grotto is an ornate subterranean passageway in Margate, Kent. Almost all the surface area of the walls and roof is covered in mosaics created entirely of seashells, totalling about 2,000 square feet (190 m2) of mosaic, or 4.6 million shells. It was discovered in 1835 but its age remains unknown. The grotto is a Grade I listed building and is open to the public.
Random shell fragments on white.
This is a conbination of two versions of a single photo to make one.
The base layer is the optimized RGB photo,
then a duplicate converted to black and white was placed on top.
Lastly, the opacity of that top layer was adjusted to what you see now.
There are two white shell pieces that have been pushed right to the edge of higlight clipping
on the right side, but both on my monitor and in the print they are in zone 10.
No texture, but the edges can be seen.
This is the perfect summer necklace for a night out or just a relaxing BBQ in your backyard with friends.
The necklace measures 17" in length and looks great with higher necklines or a deeper cut out.
The 1.5 - 2" long shell beads catch and reflect the light in a subtle way and their shape adds some drama to your neckline. No fancy dress needed here!
The shell beads are interspersed with amber colored lampwork glass beads (10mm squares and 8mm rounds) that have sparkling metallic copper streaks enclosed.
You can find this necklace and matching earrings in my Etsy store at nikkisstudio.etsy.com