Scallop Shell

by Marco Oliveira

Original - Not For Sale

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6016.000 x 4016.000 pixels

Title

Scallop Shell

Artist

Marco Oliveira

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Photograph - Photography

Description

Beautiful Scallop Shell
Photograph By Marco Oliveira

This work was created from my personal collection of shells and conches. All the conches were collected on a nearby beach after a period of high tides, but the scallop shell was harder to find. It took me several months to find it. And in fact, it was not me who found it. It was a friend of mine. We met one day during our summer vacation on an island and decided to go diving along the coast. We both knew I was looking for one of these shells, so we kept our eyes open. My friend did not take long to spot one, plunged under water and brought it to the surface. He also wanted one, but he knew how desperately I wanted the shell and so he gave it to me. I still owe him a beer for that!


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To know more about scallops
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scallops are a cosmopolitan family of bivalves, found in all of the world's oceans, though never in freshwater. They are one of very few groups of bivalves to be primarily free-living; many species are capable of rapidly swimming short distances and even of migrating some distance across the ocean floor. A small minority of scallop species live cemented to rocky substrates as adults. Some others species are more simply attached, by means of a filament they secrete. The majority of species, however, live recumbent on sandy substrates, but when they sense the presence of a predator such as a starfish, they are able to escape by swimming swiftly but erratically through the water using a form of jet propulsion created by repeatedly clapping the valves of their shells together. Scallops have a well-developed nervous system. Unlike most other bivalves, they have numerous simple eyes situated around the edges of their mantles.

Many species of scallops are highly prized as a food source, and some are farmed as aquaculture. The word "scallop" is also applied simply to the meat of these bivalves when it is sold as seafood. In addition the name "scallop" is used as part of the name of dishes based on the meat of scallops, and is even applied to some dishes not containing the meat of these bivalves, dishes that are prepared in a similar fashion. The brightly colored, symmetrical, fan-shaped shells of scallops, with their radiating, often fluted sculpture, are valued by shell collectors, and have been used since ancient times as motifs in art, architecture and design.


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November 28th, 2014

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