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One of the windows through which powder and shell were passed from the magazines to the gun positions, at the east end of Drake's Island. Now sealed, and colonized by navelwort.
At the right rear corner of the Minneapolis-Moline sheller is the Waukesha engine that was used to power the unit.
Conchologia indica, being illustrations of the land and freshwater shells of British India. [1870-1876].
London, 1870-1876.
Shell used for 'cuttlefish casting' in silversmithing class last year to produce a solid shell.Shell approx 20mm total length.
A symphony of shells bathed in golden light
Location details: Shoalhaven Heads, Australia
Technical information
* Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/11
* Shutter speed: 1/30 sec
* Aperture: f/11
* Focal length: 100 mm
* Lens: XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR
* ISO: 400
* Camera model: X-T4
* Camera make: Fujifilm
The evening light paints the beach with a warm glow, highlighting the intricate patterns of the shells scattered across the sand. The winter air is crisp, and the golden hour light creates a magical atmosphere at Shoalhaven Heads. 🌅🐚❤️
This composition perfectly captures the beauty of the beach at 6:16 pm in August. The soft, warm light highlights the delicate textures of the shells, creating a captivating scene. The weather was perfect for this winter evening. ✨
Do you love exploring the beauty of Shoalhaven Heads? What's your favorite thing about a beach scene like this?
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I coudn't find a rick-rack wide enough for the big pillow cover I'm making. I decided to make some crochet shells instead.
Shell Beach, Shark Bay, Western Australia. As the name implies, the beach is entirely made up of tiny sea shells. Barefoot or sandals not recommended!
Over the last year I have collected shells from a shore line here in Adelaide. I got to the beach to remember my mother. When I began this collection, I realised I wanted to display them rather than put in a box. My idea of having some box frames eventually developed in these final products.
I believe these are shells from cicadas. They are just hollow shells, but they still look like bugs.
Two ever-ready leather bags for my Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa and my KW Praktina's camera's arrived recently.
The bag for the Exakta is a special bag with a large nose that can accomodate the Carl Zeiss Biotar lens 1:1.5 f=75mm. It is made of 3 detachable parts. The interior is covered with a blue velvet.
I found also a lot of two waist-level finders, a model version 2 (years 1950's) with a big optical bloc giving a splendid magnification and a later version 5 with a modern focusing screen incorporating a Fresnel lens and a central micro prism zone (year 1960's). Both have their Exakta leather cases in good condition that could also fits the pentaprism finder.
The KW Praktina leather bag is more classical in two pieces with detachable shell.
About the Exakta Varex IIa and the Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar lens :
The camera arrived from Berlin, Zehlendorf to Lyon, France, on February 7, 2024, It indeed a "wunderbar" Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa, year 1957, with its normal lens Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 1:2 f=58mm "Q1" (First Quality).
The camera was offered by the vendor to his father who was a former development engineer at Ihagee company, Dresden, Germany. During all his career he could even not imagine in DDR to buy such wonderful and expensive camera almost all exported abroad. He carefully restored and maintained the camera to he factory standards.
The Exakta Varex was, for a time in the fifties, before the Nikon F, a trusted system 35m SLR camera that was successfully used in professional, technical and scientific appliances. The Varex followed the Kine Exakta started before WWII in the 30's. The Varex IIa (1956-1959) is tough to be the series of best quality. Exakta stopped the production in 1970 with the ultimate VX1000 but several further camera's were after sold out under the name of Exakta as the Exakta RTL1000 for instance.
About the KW Praktina camera :
This specimen is the version 2 (code 110) produced at about 25.000 exemplars from June 1958 to Mai 1960. Praktina camera's were very high grade precision and quality machines much more sophisticated than the Praktica and the Praktiflex also produced by KW. Praktina was a "system" SLR 35 mm camera with a an impressive range of possible accessories and lenses including large capacity 17m film back and several motors.
My camera came with the mechanical 12-view motor and two Carl Zeiss normal lenses : a Tessar 1:2.8 f=50mm and a Flexon 1:2 f=50mm. This later Flexon lens was designed for the Praktina by Carl Zeiss Jena to modernize the old Biotar 1:2 f=58mm and to fulfill a more closer definition of a "normal lens" to the focal of 50mm. The lens is also much more compact. It was soon renamed "Pancolar" by Zeiss later on.
The Praktina has its own bayonet mount that ressemble a bit to the Canon FD mount with a locking ring on the camera body. The mount has a very large diameter. The IIa model has a new fully automatic diaphragm stop down system. With the Zeiss Flexon, the iris preset is indeed like with a modern camera.
Praktina is a completely different camera compared to the Praktica IV. The body is very well equilibrated and more compact not very far for the Olympus OM-1. The design looks particularly modern and the camera is particularly pleasant to manipulate.
The productiotn suddenlty stopped in May 1960 after the governmental decision to drop down the imposed prices of all camera's DDR by 30%! Praktina was then likely too expensive to be produced normally. As consequence, the less expensive and less performant Praktica's continued when KW became part of the VEB Pentacon.
April 13, 2024
69004 Lyon
France
A little collection of what I found down by the fjord the other day.
1. mussels, 2. mussels, 3. mussels, 4. mussels
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