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Turquoise mosaic of a double-headed serpent | British Museum - 12

nobody@flickr.com (Paulo Dykes) — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:18:57 -0700

Mixtec-Aztec, AD 1400-1521

"It is carved in wood (Cedrela odorata) and covered with turquoise mosaic. The wood is hollowed at the back.

"Serpent imagery occurs throughout the religious iconography of Mesoamerica. The serpent is associated with several Mexica deities including Quetzalcoatl (Feathered Serpent), Xiuhcoatl (Fire Serpent) and Mixcoatl (Cloud Serpent) or Coatlicue (She of the Serpent Skirt), the mother of the Mexica god Huitzilopochtli. The habit of snakes to shed their skin each year probably led to them being used to convey ideas concerning renewal and transformation. Likewise the ability of many species to move freely between water, earth and the forest canopy helped underline their symbolic role as intermediaries between the different layers of the cosmos (underworld, earth and sky).

"Spondylus (thorny oyster) shell was used for the bright red details around the nose and mouth of both of this object's serpent heads. Strombus (conch) shell was used for the white teeth. Within the gaping mouths the resin adhesive was coloured bright red with hematite. Beeswax adheres to the edges of the empty eye sockets which were probably originally inlaid, perhaps with iron pyrites.

"The reverse of the body is undecorated, although the surface may have originally been gilded, but the heads are worked in mosaic on both sides. Resins from pine and Bursera (copal) were used as adhesives for the mosaic."

Source: British Museum website

Various Conch snails (Family Strombidae)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:44:10 -0800

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Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus) and Margined conch (Strombus marginatus robustus)

More about this snail on the wildfacts sheets on wildsingapore.

300dpi photo free for download. Please credit to Ria Tan www.wildsingapore.com

Photo reference: 121214chged2420

Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:21:27 -0700

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More about this snail on the wildfacts sheets on wildsingapore.

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Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:21:37 -0700

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Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:22:16 -0700

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Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:21:51 -0700

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Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:21:19 -0700

wildsingapore posted a photo:

Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:21:30 -0700

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Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:22:24 -0700

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Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:22:20 -0700

wildsingapore posted a photo:

Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:22:05 -0700

wildsingapore posted a photo:

Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:21:41 -0700

wildsingapore posted a photo:

Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:21:34 -0700

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Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:21:54 -0700

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Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:21:57 -0700

wildsingapore posted a photo:

Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:22:00 -0700

wildsingapore posted a photo:

Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:21:24 -0700

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Black-lipped conch (Strombus urceus)

nobody@flickr.com (wildsingapore) — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:22:08 -0700

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Strombus gigas

nobody@flickr.com (FedericoBetti) — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:51:10 -0700

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Florida Fighting Conch Shell (DTA_1507)

nobody@flickr.com (masinka) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:09:49 -0800

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Another home project as I did not find my way out. I decided to retake some shots of the shells we brought back from Marco Island, FL a while back. I figured it was time to see how the D600 handles extension tubes. I put the 50mm f/1.8 lens on a Kenko extension tube and went for it.

Since the D200 did not have live view I wanted to try if that was going to work any better than the phase detection focus, which was not good for this application at all. I took my first round of photos using live view and a fairly high magnification on the LCD to see if the contrast based auto-fous can tackle this close up range. Long story short, it could not. Even right on the LCD it was clear it was not doing well and on the computer I confirmed that most shots were about 1" back-focused, which was a huge problem leaving most of the front of each shell blurry.

So I went back to the good and tried method of focusing manually as close as possible through the finder and then moving the shell back and forth to fine tune the focus. I still found the optical finder better for this. It felt like the LCD motion was not smooth enough to clearly see the textures come in and out of focus.