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Early fall I made my first terrarium. I decided to use moss as the only plant. I love moss. I don't know why I love moss, I just do.* I have never made a terrarium before. I collect rocks and bits of nature so this is one view. There are 2 miniature Chinese pottery pieces that I bought in Chicagos China Town, a bridge and a Temple. This rock is supposed to represent a mountain.
Sadly a flood somehow occured and the whole garden became mush. I was terribly busy and couldn't fix it for weeks. I lost lots of the moss (I got it from our back yard). It gave me an opportunity to re-landscape it and the Temple that had originally ended up to high is now in a better spot. However I lost a lot of the moss... Time, I hope, will help it to become pretty*...
This is a very small snail the shell of which is only about 8mm in diameter. · Eine sehr kleine Schnecke mit nur etwa 8mm Hausdurchmesser.
Geographic location: Southern Germany. Habitat: meadow besides a rivulet. Color of body: some dark gray, some light brown, don't know about this one, it was too frightened. Size of housing: 8mm (0.32 inches) in diameter.
AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105 mm 1:2,8G
Nikon D300s, ISO 200, f/5, 1/800s
This is a water colour picture...almost...I´ve used some white to cover some places and giving some more light on the shell and help to form it...I was very pleased by snail-shells at that moment...it´s also an older picture.....but the picture is no direct picture of a shell....I´ve constructed one but I´ve been looking at several shells, I had......
The size of this drawing is 35,5 cm. x 35.5 cm.
Taken with a Vivitar "Ultra Wide and Slim" camera, this cheap simple camera has developed something of a cult following, it has a 22mm lens and a fixed shutter speed.
Expired Ektachrome p1600 slide film, cross-processed in Tetenal C41 chemistry.
Converted to black and white in post-processing.
These shells were at the edge of the lake and were almost the size of my fist. They were beautiful but somehow lonely as well...their inhabitants had moved on.
the nest of a male bower bird who collected white objects to attract a mate. Shot in Humpty Doo in the Northern Territory.
Found this shell, in this position, down by the pond. Made me super happy! Tried it with a few lenses, but the 100mm macro worked the best.
Perhaps one of the most colorful Osmia, Osmia versicolor, collected by Jelle Devalez on the Aegean Islands of Greece. Yet another snail shell nester. What would these species do if there were no snail shells and no snails to make them? Photography by Maggie Yuan.
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The Snail Shell Assassin figure recently released, and I got mine in a few days ago. Like Figma, Snail Shell has a very competent body that they tweak and provide for use in developing figures for the assortment of interesting character designs.
So I don't know the official names or anything, but this figure basically has two forms - some strange hybrid cybernetic animal form, and of course, the expected Waifu in skintight jumpsuit form.
It's an interesting design aesthetic, though for an assassin she seems awfully under armed, featuring a knife and a Grapnel Gun. The sheath for the knife and the harness for the Grapnel Gun plug directly into her lower spine. The interesting thing is that the hands are only meant to hold the knife - the Grapnel Gun is directly deployed from her harness... or that's what I think, as there's no real instructons.
Grapnel Gun comes with a coiled wire as well as three different tips, one for use when the tip has not been fired, and two actual projectiles to use with the wire.
Assassin is a return to average height for one of their figures, as Milk T Girl was just really short, though to be fair she was also really cheap to buy.
The cyborg mode head features multiple joints for articulation in the neck, covered with a fabric piece to hid the joints. There's also a joint at the base of the head, so overall this giraffe necked sculpt is actually very articulated. Compared to the normal head, which features effectively no neck articulation and limited head tilt, this feels somewhat like a step back.
Articulation has generally not been an issue with Snail Shell figures, and this is no different. mainly lacking a waist and butterfly shoulder joints. I've never removed the legs of any of the other figures (but this one I have to in order to swap out the groin pieces, and I notied the the hip design actually features some robust designs to allow for increased range of let motion without relying on a pull down hip design. The tail is actually articulated, tough the connection looks so fragile I'm afraid to actually manipulate the piece too much.
As always, use of the base will increase your posing options, and the base has cavities for you to store you spare pieces.
The two face plates are functional, and I can only presume they look like the source art. I can say, however, they're solid in terms of looking anime in nature, though again I wonder if this is simply because art direction insisted. There seems to be more rouge around the eyes on the finished product compared to the prototypes, and this shows up on the photos.
Otherwise, Paint and Build wise, pretty much on par with other Snail Shell items. in case you weren't aware, that is basically Storm Collectibles level of quality that should be coming out from these sets. Some questionable design choices as i've outlined above, but overall the figure certainly holds together than product from other companies.
The flamingo tongue snail, Latin name Cyphoma gibbosum, is a species of small but brightly colored sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the cowry allies.
Boynton Beach Dive – October 6th 2008
We caught a huge snail. I had never seen one that big.
On Sunday, Carolyn's mom told us that she and Carolyn's dad had signed up for the lobster cruise at 1PM. So Carolyn & Clint decided to go to. It was a lot of fun! It wasn't the same as crabbing, but it was still interesting. The captain only caught 2 lobsters and neither were keepers. One was too small. The other one was huge, but it was a she, and she was carrying eggs so we had to put her back. The captain said she was the biggest lobster they had caught this season. There were a bunch of other creatures in the traps too.
captain.
boating.
boat captain, cage, channel, lobster trap, rubber gloves, seaweed, snail shell.
Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
August 1, 2010.
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BACKSTORY: Carolyn's family reunion was at Cape Cod this year. We stayed at the Chatham Bars Inn. It was a lot of fun, and we were happy to see everyone.
For Vicky's recount of the trip, visit: tgaw.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/cape-cod-day-1/
Yeh i know the editing round the eye isnt great but i dont have the luxuray of photoshop on my laptop only some free software i downloaded of the internet :(