Fossilized seashell

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I look at this and I'm reminded of all the hours I used to spend as a child looking for shells at the beach, or better yet for fossils whispering to us from the depths of the ages. I love the subtle delicate shaping of this one, making it look almost soft. It almost defies comprehension, how something as ethereal as the imprint of a shell or a plant can survive through the millenia, creating a memory of itself from the very soil in which it lies. How long did this small treasure have to wait, unseen, for me to find it?

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Thousands of years?

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Hundreds of thousands?

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Perhaps even millions?

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Or perhaps maybe just a few weeks ;-).

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Take another look and see what you think.

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I started experimenting with focal black and white this afternoon, veered off into sepia, and from there one thing led to another until I ended up with my "fossil".

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I am so loving photoshop...
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