A seashell sits burrowed in the course sand waiting for the tide to come in.
The colour and patterns drew me to this particular shell and the way it sat below the level of the sand. I also like the crystals of the course-grained sand.
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Wow ! It’s facinating looking that closely at the sand.
Great picture. 🙂
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Thank you Hallysann! The grains of sand on this part of the beach were quite course which surprised me.
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Great intricate detail…great shot!
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Many thanks Planaquarium. I like the way it was burrowed in!
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I agree with your other commentators…really fascinating with the great detail of the shell and sand. Beautiful!
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Thank you Scott! I like the patterns on the shell and their ‘completeness’.
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Love the colors and the detail you were able to capture. Well done!
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Thank you David. I was surprised at the size of the sand grains.
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Wonderful!
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Thank you Brandon 🙂
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I love this! Totally. Great textures.. 🙂
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Thank you Nandini 🙂
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The designs in shells amaze me! I like the contrast with the gold sand.
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Thank you Fergie. The design of this one makes me think of an Icelandic-style jumper I wanted to knit 🙂
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The contrasting colors and the fantastic textures make this such a great photo!
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Thank you Terry!
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Fascinating details in this fine macro shot 🙂
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Thank you Truels 🙂
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A really nice shot. Great detail.
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Thank you Dave! The sand was rather smoother on other parts of the beach.
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great detail and I love the warm colours.
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Thank you Sheila!
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The sand looks like uncut tiny diamonds!
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Thank you Savira! It does doesn’t it?!
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fantastic macro shot! My first impression was the toe of a rubber boot poking out from fine gravel. I like these distortions of perception that crop up in your photos quite a bit.
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Thanks so much Ehpem. I’ve had another look at it and I can see what you mean! The original shot was of the whole shell and on the left was a shadow giving a 3D effect but I kept looking at it and felt it wasn’t right. I then cropped and rotated and rotated again and coverted to B&W – and I still wasn’t happy with it. I then thought maybe I should show part shell and part sand and it just seemed to look better!
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I think you got it right this way.
The sand is pretty special – can’t be very common to have a grain size like that. It looks as if they are pure quartz. I would guess there are quartz veins in the rocks around there somewhere and for some reason the wave energy is concentrating this size in this place. It would be interesting to understand it better.
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Thank you ehpem. I’ll see what I can find out. I’m pretty sure Bournemouth isn’t part of the Jurassic Coast but I’ll check it out.
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Wow, great colors and texture.
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Many thanks Sandy. The beach wasn’t full of shells which made certain ones stand out even more!
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Great idea and great picture! Adrian
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Thank you Adrian. This one was rotated so many times it was quite dizzying!
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I love looking for those ‘small’ things that often go unnoticed…and so I love this photograph and how often capture the almost secret beauty of the world around us.
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Thank you Bardess. Yes, I also love finding the small things which normally get overlooked.
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