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Yes, exactly what [USER=69670]@IamSam[/USER] says above. Here's a breakdown of the steps:

• Use guidelines or a grid to identify the center of your circular path.
• On a new layer, draw a circular path as an additional guide to the placement of your small ellipses.
• On a new layer, use the Eliptical Shape tool to create a circle (or ellipse) of the desired size.
• Position that shape exactly at "twelve o'clock". Like this:

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• Determine how many circle shapes you want. In your example there are 21 of them.
• To equally space 21 shapes around a circular path, calculate 360° divided by 21, which equals 17.143°.
• Activate your shape layer and go to Edit>Transform Path>Rotate.
• You now need to do two things before "accepting" the rotation.
• First: a bounding box will appear around your circular shape. In the center of that is the "rotation point". Grab that rotation point with your mouse and move it down to the exact center of your guidelines. Like this:

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• Next, you need to enter how much rotation you want.
• While the rotate command is still active, go into the toolbar settings and enter 17.143 where the red arrow is pointing. This is the amount you calculated earlier which gives the exact amount of rotation needed for 21 shapes.

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• Once you've entered the rotation amount, click the "okay" checkmark to accept the rotation.
• The remaining steps will now go much faster.
• For now, you should have this:

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• Duplicate your shape layer for Shape #2.
• Important: after you duplicate the layer, unclick the vector mask so that the mask is not active.
• Now you can rotate this new layer using the command Edit>Transform>Again.
• Keep repeating the process: copy the shape to a new layer; unclick the vector mask; go to Edit>Transform>Again.
• Do this 21 times to complete the circle. Here's what the first six iterations looks like.
    

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