Picking shells..., a photo from Goa, West

Photographer's Note

At low tide people come to collect shells for lunch or dinner.
Seafood forms is an important part of the Goan diet as it is high in protein.

Here is a recipe : Fried clams in shells

100 large clams
� tsp.salt
1 tsp. Chilli powder
� tsp. Tumeric powder
2 tbsps.rice flour or semolina oil

Preparation :

Wash the clams well, slit them open keeping the flesh on one shell discarding the empty shells.

Mix salt, chilli and tumeric powders and sprinkle over clams.

Allow to stand for half an hour. Sprinkle flour on each clam and fry them in hot oil.

Keep the flame low until the clams are fried. Turn and remove from the pan.

Hope you like it...

Wahclellaspirit, siolaw, bakes888, delkoo, ALIRIZA, evanrizo, mugush, Photo65Net, papagolf21, riclopes, kermit350, pranab, Angshu, rushfan2112, InasiaJones, elmec, robertosalguero, Didi, pierrefonds, nivaldo, Partha_c has marked this note useful

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Wahclellaspirit (4125) 2007-06-15 2:07

Hello Marilyn,
I like th image as there seems to be something else going on to the right of the immediate scene. The photo not only shows the bags of clams, but has other properties that make the image interesting.
Clams sounds awfully good here real soon,
Steve

ninaL (21348) 2007-06-15 2:11

Hi, Marilyn.
Beautiful photograph about daily life.
Excellent composition, interesting light...
And good moment : something will happen, no doubt, women are looking at something out frame !!!
Best regards. Grazyna.

siolaw (38294) 2007-06-15 2:55

salut marilyn!
c est la recette que tu comptes preparer pour mon retour??
superbe luminosite,POV et couleurs, et l ambience poissoniere est bien rendue!personne ne te regarde, et tu n as pas l air de les deranger outre mesure
coucou de CDG
laurent

bakes888 (18499) 2007-06-15 3:27

Hi Marilyn. Excellent capture of daily life. Good colour and composition and of natural poses. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Paul.

vincz (19113) 2007-06-15 3:28

Bon c'est bien tout 鏰 mais ou est la plage ou je vais trouver les coquillages :) Que l'ambiance henerale a l'air clame et tranquille, les pieds dans une belle au transparente. Un beau cliche qui nous emmene dans une belle atmospehre loin de nos villes bruyantes.

barrufeto_77 (28888) 2007-06-15 3:43

Hi Marilyn.

A great daily life picture! The light was also good.

Well done!

Rgs, Oscar

PixelTerror (0) 2007-06-15 4:26

Bonjour Marilyn,
La premiere chose qui me vient a l'esprit est mais qu'est ce qui a donc capte leur attention sur le cote droit ? et je dois dire que ca me laisse un peu sur ma faim car justement j'aurais bien aime voir cela dans la photo... Sinon une photo LATW (Learn about the world) qui montre l'importance de la riviere dans le vie quotidienne des gens.
Bonne journee,
Jean-yves

ALIRIZA (16423) 2007-06-15 5:32

Hi Marilyn,
Wonderful daily life shot.Beautiful composition with good colours, reflections, and natural poses. Well done my friend...
Have a nice weekend...
Ali Rıza

evanrizo (462) 2007-06-15 6:33

Salut Marilyn,
If called them,would they looks to your camera?
Anyway it looks very good, the light is very interesting.
Thanks very much also for the information.
Evan

mugush (2104) 2007-06-15 8:21

Goa is the place i want to be there,but will take 2 years :(
very nice picture, i like daily life's scene from different parts of the world and your gallery is full of same..
nice work
thanks for sharing
love
mugush

delkoo (68) 2007-06-15 8:50

bonjour Marylin
je me demande ce qu"elles regardent, ce doit 阾re Laurent qui passe par l�!!!!
merci pour la recette qui doit 阾re d閘icieuse.

bon week end

didier

Photo65Net (43144) 2007-06-15 13:10

Marylin,
Belle prise de la vie quotidienne.
Comme souv ent sur tes photos d'Inde, les couleurs et teintes ont quelquechose de sp閏ial, tr鑣 agr閍ble.
Bien vu,
Bonne soir閑,
JB.

Graal (103040) 2007-06-16 2:57

Hi Marilyn,
interesting scene, pleasant colours, fine note. I like it. Good work.
Gr., Aleksander

papagolf21 (152607) 2007-06-16 3:45

Bonjour, mon amie Marilyn,
Tr鑣 belle composition, mon amie Marilyn, vous avez parfaitement saisi cette sc鑞e de ces femmes.
Il 閙ane de cette r閍lisation une grande beaut�.
F閘icitations.
Amiti閟.
Philippe

riclopes (35577) 2007-06-16 4:56

Ol� Marilyn, that's a nice original note :) Good daily life capture of the 4 ladies collecting shells. It seems that something captured their attention to the right...I wonder if someone else found a better spot with bigger shells :)
The light is beautiful and the moment is interesting.
Cheers,
ricardo

kermit350 (9016) 2007-06-16 5:19

Bonjour Marilyn, j抋ime la note pour situ� l抋ction, mais surtout le pourquoi du comment ou comment apprendre tout sur la recette des palourdes sans jamais avoir os� le demander, le tout baignant (sans jeu de mot)dans une d閘icieuse lumi鑢e douce pour un rendu naturel, bien amicalement

pablominto (53746) 2007-06-16 5:46

Hello Marilyn,
Interesting daily life capture, and a good documentary photograph!
Good side light and very attractive colours, well framed with the strong diagonal...
And of course I wonder where their attention may be..?
Greetings,
Pablo -

pranab (5354) 2007-06-17 2:44

marilyn,
an excellent capture of daily life of goa.
nice pov, i also like the fact that the subjects are not looking at the camera. you have used the light very well.

Angshu (56760) 2007-06-17 2:59

Hello Marilyn
Interesting recipe...I hope I get some shells some day in Delhi to try this out. Good picture of shell pickers & their 'booty'. The side light is good & the image well captured
Regards
Angshu

UnTrained (0) 2007-06-17 5:27

Hi Marilyn,
I like this moment of daily life and it is interesting that they pay to anything unknown outside the capture their attention. As I like seafood, it sounds tasty, never had indian seafood before.
Lieben Gruss, Ulf

keribar (43841) 2007-06-17 13:07

Hello Marylin,
It would be difficult to guess (Although I can see some clams now )whatever they were doing if there were no note. All women are looking in one direction, as if someome has yelled from there. Nice lateral light and pretty colors.

Friendly yours - Izzet

boromare (366) 2007-06-19 1:59

salut.super photo!et ces pose typiquement goan ,beaux reflets.a plus tard...mario

rushfan2112 (2965) 2007-06-22 17:04

Hi Marilyn. You have an unerring knack of capturing the moment and this shot's no exception. Lovely colours and composition. The light is superb and it tells a timeless story. Regards, Paul.

InasiaJones (31566) 2007-06-23 18:07

Hi Marilyn,

En voyant ta photo format "thumbnail", je croyais voir des femmes faire leur toilette, mais en ouvrant plus grand, je cherchais le gat... :-D)

La lumi鑢e qui arrive � l抙orizontale laisse pr閟umer que tu avais choisi le petit matin pour concocter cette photo, ce qui donne un r閟ultat agr閍ble. Il y a 閍lement la r閒lection des femmes � la surface de l抏au qui contribue � la beaut� de la sc鑞e.

Je remarque une croix sur le panier, ce qui est peut-阾re un symbole de leur religion dans le sud de l扞nde. J抋vais observ� la m阭e chose sur une autre photo de TE, o� l抩n retrouvait une croix sur la proue d抲n bateau...

Ciao!

Andr�

devimeuxbe (58557) 2007-06-24 22:13

Bonjour Marilyn
Toujours une bien belle image de vie quotidienne.
Baignee par la lumiere rasante, c' est encore plus beau.
Amicalement
Bertrand

elmec (12210) 2007-06-25 2:07

Hello Marilyn!
Great scene with woman working in the water!
Very authentic daily life!
Good work!
Best regardS!

robertosalguero (292) 2007-06-27 2:59

Thanks for the recipe. It will be worth trying it someday. I like your picture because of the simple subject. The women seem a bit distracted by something creating a natural and casual scene. Well composed Marilyn.

Roberto

jemaflor (148248) 2007-06-28 14:58

Salut Marilyn,
Bonne composition avec la r閜artition harmonieuse des personnes et des paniers dans ta composition, bonne luminosit� qui donne du relief � ta vue.

Didi (61589) 2007-07-01 8:11

Bonjour Marilyn
C'est la lumi鑢e lat閞ale qui donne � cette composition tout son int閞et car cela donne un certain relief.
Tr鑣 bon point de vue en plong閑.
Amiti閟.

pierrefonds (115546) 2007-07-08 12:54

Bonjour Marilyn,

Un belle photo de ces femme qui ramassent des coquillages, la photo a une bonne composition, nettet� et de jolies couleurs. Bonne journ閑.

Pierre

nivaldo (15417) 2007-07-09 17:54

Salut Marilyn !!!
You are lucky to be so much involved with Indian customs and habits! I love your pictures from there! Very amazing captures and flagrantes!!! I am Brazilian but I磎 quite concerned and curious about India too!
TFS!
Um abra鏾! God bless you!
Nivaldo

noborders (1010) 2007-08-05 4:21

Une photo interessante, non seulement pour la recette (j'ai horreur de faire la cuisine, mais ca me donne l'eau a la bouche malgre tout), mais aussi pour voir les diverses tenues des Goanaises, des robes du style "mission" jusqu'aux differentes facons de nouer un sari pour eviter de le mouiller, et quant a la dame le plus a droite, peut etre porte-t-elle un genre de shalwar kamiz ?
TFS,
Cath.

Partha_c (2029) 2007-12-28 23:30

Hi Marilyn. Looking at an old post I liked the daily life shot of Goaneese. The placement of two relatively younger ladies on the left with soft sunrays falling on the basket is very well composed. I remember a tongue twister which we used to play during our childhood : "She sells seashells on sea shore". It was a lot of fun. You can try. I can also try the recipe if I get some clams someday! Regards.
Partha

Jean51 (24) 2008-05-23 7:32