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Part of Savannah, Georgia's rich texture - sidewalks along the river front are composed of tabby - a blend of oyster shells, lime and sand.
A mussel shell on which seaweed has grown that suggests the pareidolia profile portrait of an animal like a sheep.
The shell is sat on an unused tablet screen protector, lit from above with daylight and from below with the flash-light of a phone.
Stacked from 61 images.
This is the same shell that I photographed a couple of days ago, and posted on Flickr. For that image I laid it flat and lit it from the side so that I could reveal the shapes and textures. You can see that version of the shell down below in the first comment.
For this version I wanted to show the translucent quality of the shell, and make it glow, by using back lighting. I propped the shell up by leaning it up against a clear glass shot glass. Lighting came from a YN560-II in a Rogue grid behind the shell, and slightly to camera right. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I have photographed quite a few shells over the years, and if you like this sort of thing, they're in my creatively named Shells album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157626043932290