Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper!
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (15)
Mulltipass
Very Cool Shot!!!! Love the texture and the way the light illuminates!!!
helanker
This is a wonderful shot of beach finds. I cant resist either. I is great meditation just walking along the water edge finding little gems :)
Juliette.Gribnau
beautiful !
QuietRiot
Beautiful shell. You can see the years of growth and life.
Djavad
Superbe récolte pour votre collection, qui je n'en doute pas, comporte de multiples joyeuses trouvailles !
rockstrider
This must be a very old shell - love the texture and detail in this shot Andrea!
anahata.c
in zoom, it's an archaeological wonder in a museum. The flickr version is just as exotic and beautiful. So many layers; and really, with this detail, it looks like a huge canyon or cave in a landscape. Or the opening to another dimension. Beautiful detail, Andrea, and against all that black, it's smashing. I've had a tale in my head for a long time about a creature-ghost who comes to our home and says, "that shell you have on your wall: That's me." I love when you take these wonders of nature and silhouette them (so to speak) with total black around them: They become exotic jewels. And this looks huge, even though I assume it isn't. It's like it could hold 100 people in its "teeth"...
CavalierLady
Beautiful shot... the layering and textures are so interesting!
jendellas
Lots of oyster shells on our beach, this one looks exotic.
blinkings
Yeah me too I'm always picking up stuff on my walks.
MrsRatbag
I would do the same, it's a fascinating bit of natural structure, with all those layers revealed through the hole. Wonderful find!
photosynthesis
Wow - you really brought out the richness of the textures & colors in this. It looks like a bone fragment of an exotic beast. Really outstanding & makes me feel like I should try to take some photos of my shell collection...
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
wysiwig
Looks like the mouth of some great sea creature or perhaps a cave. A wonderful capture of the colors and textures of this. Your lighting really brings out the ridges. Outstanding work.
Glendaw
What a great find, the colors and markings are gorgeous.
Like how the lighting brings out the sharp and jagged edges, thanks for sharing !