Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Great B&W shot, Jim.

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

Ok, everyone has commented on what a fine shot this is, and I agree.

Am I the only one, knowing where you do most of your photographing, to wonder at what elevation you shot this photo of a SEAshell and wonder how did it get there. Unless someone was carrying it and just dropped it, I know how it got there. So now it's a wonder, to me, as to how it survived all these millennia.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Ok. Full confession: Elevation was maybe 6' above sea level. I say 'maybe' because I don't know whether the tide was high, whether it was low, or whether it was somewhere inbetween. And yes, the shell (it's a standard Periwinkle shell as would commonly be found in countless places along the edges of most oceans) is indeed a SEAshell. I chanced upon it some 35 (or whatever) years ago in a seldom-visited section (specifically, at what's called 'Green Point') on an island (Monhegan Is.) some eleven miles off the coast of Maine. How the shell got there, however, is anybody's guess: a seagull dined on it's occupant and left the inedible part? a wave tossed the shell (sans occupant?) up onto the rocks? a rogue photographer who was in his Edward Weston B&W-ian phase of large format ptfoggerfity placed it on a weird looking hunk of rock ever so artfully? or, most likely, aliens who'd travelled 46.5 lightyears from their home planet to come to planet "Earth" to create havoc found the shell, ate it's occupant, left the shell as a warning, and called their conquest complete. Don't know when any or all of the above might've happened exactly (other than the havoc was done more than 35 [or so] years ago) but whenever havoc was done, that havoc would not have happened more than a century ago. Which --I'd presume-- would make any reference to millenia effectively moot.

All reasonable questions though, I'm.

Seen any Periwinkle-eating aliens in your neighborhood lately? If no, then good on you. If you have, I'd suggest you RUN AWAY! Better yet, you RUN AWAY VERY, VERY FAST!

b top gun

Nice image. One of the things I enjoy about my new Nikon Z8, when I want to shoot black and white, I get to see the image in black and white before I take the shot. Was not able to do that with any of my previous Nikons; could only check the image after I took the shot.

fuminous Loc: Luling, LA... for now...

Really nice, Jim... reminds me of the gentle gradations in much of Weston's work- and coincidently- also of Cunningham's "Two Calas". Very nice.

black mamba

I like it a lot. Very well executed.

Tom

HRoss Loc: Longmont, CO

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Thanx, fumi. For having referenced Imogene's work too, right along with Weston's.

Bubalola Loc: Big Apple, NY

olddutch Loc: Beloit, Wisconsin

Did you use a fast shutter speed????

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Yes. Very fast indeed. Somewhere down in the micro-seconds. Because Periwinkles are known to be the 2nd fastest mollusk on the planet, and when one decides it wants to go, its already gone.

olddutch Loc: Beloit, Wisconsin

Thanks. I liked that

topcat Loc: Alameda, CA

Very nice work

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

Good response, and very entertaining. I should have thought about your years in the northeast. I'll just claim a senior moment. I do live within a half mile of the north end of the mighty Ohio River, but do not spend any time there. Compared to Daytona Beach, who would want to? I'll keep an eye out for Periwinkle eating aliens, but I doubt that they would want to eat anything out of the Ohio River.