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The Beauty of Seashells

Challenge #91 in the Life in the Natural World series. Hosted by RuthC.

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By request, here is an opportunity for you to showcase interesting and beautiful seashells (molluscs). The shells may still be enjoying life at the seaside, or you may have the shells at home where you can still admire the intricacies of these remarkable molluscs. Please, NO photos of fine dining with oysters on a bed of rock salt, snails in garlic butter, seafood paella etc. I will allow fresh water or live land snails, but the theme of the challenge is the shell, NOT the roving eyes of said snails. Macro and close-up photos welcome. Size of entry: 1,600px MAXIMUM on its longer side.

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Announced:

Saturday, 15th March, 2014 (GMT)

Submissions:

Saturday, 22nd March, 2014 – Friday, 28th March, 2014 (GMT)

Voting:

Saturday, 29th March, 2014 – Friday, 4th April, 2014 (GMT)

Processing rules:

SIZE: Longer side of entry, MAXIMUM 1600px.
Full colour only.
No glaringly obvious HDR or post-processing. If it hurts my eyes, it's out!
TITLE: Give your entry a title, not just a photo number.
NO watermarks or forms of identification, or personal website references.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

YES, Photos from previous DPR challenges can be entered in this challenge, but no photos which have won previous DPR challenges, please.
Two entries per person, but they should be a different subject.
PLEASE vote on other entries, to counteract the sandbaggers.
ENTRANTS WHO HAVE ENTERED MANY CHALLENGES, AND HAVE NEVER VOTED, OR HAVE A VERY LOW VOTING SCORE RELATIVE TO THEIR ENTRIES MAY BE DQ'D.
Entrants who cheat by sandbagging, vote manipulation, or with multiple DPR accounts will be DQ'd from my challenges.

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

100

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