My wife and I hit Sandy Hook (NJ) for sunrise with visions of bird photography dancing in my head. It was a total bust. I did take a single bird shot. I did run into Axel out there on North Beach and he was heading back toward the parking area due to a lack of shorebirds.
As we (my wife and I not Axel and I :)) were walking along the beach, I happened to see this single shell lying alone in a pretty clean (shell-less) stretch of beach. No birds so let's photograph the shell... with my 50D and 300mm f/2.8L IS w/ 2x TC. I worked the shell from a couple of angles without touching it at all and ended up liking this angle the best. After I was done, I asked my wife if she wanted the shell. She said sure so I picked it up to hand to her. And when I did, I glanced inside and there was a hermit crab neatly tucked up in there. After a brief discussion about the merits of a pet hermit crab, I gently returned the little fella to his spot on the beach.
1/250 sec @ f/8.0; ISO 400; +1 EV, Sunny WB






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