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Here is a different crop from the master scan that I also derivated my contest entry... In the Photo Gallery, I posted a slightly smaller version of this one here combined with the entrant image, as them two go very well together...IMHO... The link above is for the combined version... Regards... :-)

Very Cool Doruk, you can sleep easy knowing you have a great contender for the juxtaposition theme! I'm not sure I'll even bother with mine...competition is too stiff! :-)>

Slowly the space ship settles down on the planet Seedy Argonis! This s great pic. have you condsidered using it as a texture backdrop? Bsteph

those textures are great!

..did someone say texture? ZZZzzzzzzzuppp. and bald guys hd sucked the pic and saved it to textures-folder .n

Doruk is these sand dollars? I've seen very similar things on the beach but they are actually small, round, flat and white. I've never seen anything like this before....so beautiful......

I am, therefore I create.......
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Dear Michelle, these are probably a sort of 'sea potatoe' which belongs to the phylum 'Echinodermata' which in turn includes also sea urchins, sand dollars, and also the starfish and sea cucumbers as unshelled species... Unfortunately I've to go now, but I have some more to say about this subject... ...Later... :-)

"...details on the shoot..."..? You mean, "...on the scan...", don't you..? Oh my, I hope I didn't conduct my message about this work of mine wrong... ...I mean, this one is really a "scanner work", not a "photography scanned"... I fear of disappointing you, for the details for these images of mine are very brief... - The shells are placed carefully on the scanner for being compatible with the simple idea of juxtaposing small vs. big, and they were scanned... - Of course, the cover of the scanner was open, and the lights in the room were off to provide for the dark background...and the lighting on the shells is solely a function of the scanner, and my role was just making use of the experience and knowledge that the scanner provides such lighting... - After the scan was done at 300 ppi, the image was photoshopped a bit by way of levels, burn, and clone brush for better image quality... - Then came the painstaking period of placing the image of the shells into an appropriate frame for effective composition. It was painstaking because moving the image a few pixels here or there seemed to end up with completely different compositions... - ...And, this is it: it was just the idea, and some simple executional steps. I know I disappointed you, didn't I..? :-( But, I used my humble knowledge about scanning objects that is derived from my self experiments and discoveries with my scanner... :-) Yet, most of us who have the chance to use a scanner make such self discoveries, don't we..?