empty shells in front of a cave

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An Empty Shell

Birthday party at Ed Levin Park

First year self directed final.

Birthday party at Ed Levin Park

“We hope the "real" person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell.” - John Updike

Snail shells from a Devon garden resting on top and inside Brick (coutesy Bob Ballard) on Brandon Steep Wall, Bristol BS1

Birthday party at Ed Levin Park

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on my walks yesterday i picked up one beautiful snailshell. it lay on the middle of wide asphalt road and absolutely dead, half dry inside. no life signs. but so beautiful!! so i took it home and put it on a shelf. today i thought to take couple of photos of it - and it literally became alive under my camera lens!! like a miracle!! it hadn't budged the whole night and day on my shelf. so i shot my photos and then took it onto the balcony into a big pot of sunflower thicket and colourful-nettle-thingies. i hope he likes it there :) mr.Buddy Swirl.

Old froggy was near the edge of the pond so it gave me the chance to focus tightly on the eye i used torch light and flash to achive the shot

Lena found a snail-shell and picked up a stowaway.

One of a colony of very pretty snails who live under the railway bridge on Smithdown Road

Catching some rays in the garden

or Brothers in Calcium

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I don't think you can tell from this photo as the sun was very bright, but the colours in the shell matched the stones perfectly.

Doing a project on nature and got the idea of painting nature/in the style of artists on shells! :P This ones In the style of Thaneeya McArdle

snail shell on the glass of a broken thermos

There were lots of snails in the woods - some of them had very lovely coloured shells.

This was taken as a bit of an experiment, with a +10 diopter added to the EOS (basic 18-55mm lens).