multiple points

For this exercise I had to group a set of similar objects into a natural looking composition, I chose to use some shells that I had in my garden and place them into a tray filled with sand. I decided to use the sand because it is obviously the natural back ground for the shells, but also I wanted to try and replicate Bob Carlos Clarke's (1950-2006)  Small Stones (1999) series of photographs which have been favourites of mine for a very long time.
    With the placing of the first few shells I tried to balance the composition by placing each shell pointing in the opposing direction to the previously placed shell.