Scallop Shell Reflection by Kaye Menner

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by Kaye Menner

Title

Scallop Shell Reflection by Kaye Menner

Artist

Kaye Menner

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

**ACHIEVED 2ND PLACE IN FAA CONTEST - "Best on Black Photo Contest" December 2015

A close up photograph of a scallop shell reflecting on a shiny surface. I feel this would look fantastic in a bathroom perhaps with a matching shower curtain.

[From Wikipedia]
Scallop is a common name that is primarily applied to any one of numerous species of saltwater clams or marine bivalve mollusks in the taxonomic family Pectinidae, the scallops. The common name "scallop" is also sometimes applied to species in other closely related families within the superfamily Pectinoidea.
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, while others are more simply attached by means of a filament they secrete called a byssal thread. The majority of species, however, live recumbent on sandy substrates, and 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 of their shells together. Scallops have a well-developed nervous system, and unlike most other bivalves they have numerous simple eyes situated around the edge of their mantles.

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August 12th, 2015