Friday, April 29, 2011

She sells Sea shells on the Sea shore

Sorry, I got no mermaids or fisherman's daughter on this post. Neither am I putting in too many beautiful photographs. But these are some interesting(to me) photographs I took last weekend in Mandarmoni, West Bengal. This beach is new enough to tourists. Hence, finding sea shells is a rather natural thing unlike other popular beaches.



I was walking on the beach when suddenly this 'dead yet dazzling' washed up near my feet. The shells were not detached yet as is normally found. Who could say, this one might have carried a tiny pearl inside it.



Met another dead one, the above one. It seemed to have been alive not much before I met it. I don't know their scientific names but I can bet they are 'piece of art'.



But this guy was too alive to let me picture it and it was moving fast on wet sand. And it vanished as soon as it touched water. What amazed me is, the little divine looking guy was acting as a parasite on this clumsy beast.



I think this above one was also some kind of parasitic act. The leaf like thing must be part of some creature as I found many like it being washed ashore. Well, the shell must have had a good surfing experience riding on it.



The thing shown above looked interesting. I found another same thing but that didn't have any such shells on it. The surface was smooth. At first, I thought it might be some kind of egg but later realized that it was nothing but a lump of clay which took this shape due to continuous rolling on the flatbed surface of the beach.



For the first time in my life I saw a starfish out of the TV or zoology lab. Don't ask me if it was alive or dead. I did not feel the urge to poke a dead or may be nearly dead person on my first meeting. And of course it was the most beautiful thing I saw in Mandarmoni.

I know that you are really pissed off seeing clumsy things which I think are beautiful. And I should not deprive you of nice pictures. I hope you'd like the next two photographs. Well, although not a 'she child', but a 'he child' was selling those sea shells on the sea shore.







I thought of bringing a few to my home so that I could take a few more pictures. But somehow, we missed the opportunity. Next time, I promise to be more careful in picturing them.

5 comments:

  1. ya Mondarmoni has plenty of them on the beach......though its simple its really beautiful in its own unique way

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  2. Sorry! Not much Impressed... Your poetry in your photograph is missing Nabhonil.

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  3. I know Amiya da. But sometimes I can't help it. But I'll try to impress you very soon

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  4. Sesher duto r nicher theke fourth chobi ta amar besh interesting & bright(last two) laglo.tobe amar mone holo sesh chobi duto tui r o bhalo nite partis, mane r o interesting korte partis.ami kintu nehat-e ekjon dorshok hisabe comment korlam, criticise korar expertise amar nei.r ami Mr. Chatterjee r sathe ekmot je ur rhythmic description is missing somehow. :)

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  5. add some more variety..some more angles...some more vision basically. if u see the pic in a row, it looks like sequels with similar story but diff actors....

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