My final submission for this weeks wordpress photo challenge, is yet another old photo, this time taken with a Nikon Coolpix L25 compact camera, and shows the wonderful ‘structure’‘ of the common garden snail (Cornu aspersum). I took these photos in our garden, back in 2013.


Slow
But seemed to be knowing where to go 🙂
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Lol!!! 🙂
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Seems to have a personality. Love the color in the shell that we would probably not notice without this closeup. Nice.
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Thank you Donna 🙂
And you’re right about the markings in the shell, most people just take the snail for granted, without looking closely at it. Of course, for gardeners, it’s a real pest, I don’t think my Dad would ever find them attractive! Lol! 🙂
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Ah, yes, a gardeners view. When I lived in Oregon they were my nemesis. And now my garden inAZ has scorpions. 😳Everything in life is relative. Have a good day.
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Lol!!! I’ll have to tell my Dad about that, he’s constantly bemoaning all the snails in his garden and allotment, but compared to scorpions, he’s got it very easy!! I’m just picturing Cornish snails with pincers and a sting in their tails!! Lol! 🙂
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What a beauty!!
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Thanks Roda 🙂
I think so too, but not sure that my gardening neighbours would agree with us! Lol! 🙂
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Live and let live…my gardening motto
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My thoughts exactly Roda 🙂
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Love this pic… wow!
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Thank you very much Cerita 🙂
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Great shots!
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Thanks Rebel Girl 🙂
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Love the contrast between the structures of fleshy part and shell!
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Thank you Anita, glad you like the photos 🙂
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Such a great capture.
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Thank you Valentina 🙂
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Beautiful clicks! Good choice for the challenge!
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Thanks Shibin 🙂
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Beautiful captures! The shell patterns look so nice.
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Thank you Savita 🙂 All types of mollusc shell never cease to amaze me in their beauty.
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I’ve never seen the details of a snail. Wow. Great choice for the challenge, Andy. And thanks for your visits, likes and goid words on my blog, too. Eager to see what this week’s challenge will bring.
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Glad you like the photos Ruth 🙂 I’ve not had a chance to check out this weeks challenge, the last few have been great for the sort of things I like to photo 🙂
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The detail in your photo is stunning! Definitely a great choice to see the snail’s structure! 🙂
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Thank you Amy, glad you appreciate the ‘structure’ of the snail 🙂
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Awesome! That snail sure gets around. Scotland here, Switzerland for me. Wow!
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I think, Nancy, we have met the first turbo snail, who certainly enjoys the jetset life! Lol! 🙂
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😀 LOL!
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Stunning pictures!
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Thank you very much Kasturika 🙂
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Wonderful photos – the structure of the snail with a structure on its back!
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Thanks Lucy 🙂 I missed that one, the double use of the word ‘structure’! 🙂
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Appears to have an identity. Love the shading in the shell that we would likely not see without this closeup. Pleasant.
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Thank you Satpura 🙂
My aplogies for taking so long to get back to you, I’ve started a photography course, and everything has been a wee bit hectic over the last two or three weeks.
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These pictures are amazing! I like these snails better when they are not in my garden 🙂
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Thank you, I bet you get some amazing snails in your garden, I’d be very happy to see some of them over here, just to get a few shots of them! 🙂
My aplogies for taking so long to get back to you, I’ve started a photography course, and everything has been a wee bit hectic over the last two or three weeks.
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I can’t believe you need a photo class! What type of photography are you studying now?
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Thank you for the compliment Dee 🙂 But there’s loads I don’t know about photography!
The course is a general one, the first term seems to be concentrating on studio work (portraits and still life), how to use lighting etc, all of which is totally new to me. The other thing we are doing quite a lot of, is deconstructing photos, ie looking at other peoples work, and working out how and why it was taken, which is quite interesting to. I also get the chance to use the infamous Photoshop & Lightroom for the first time in my life, I’ve always used free/open source software up until now 🙂
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I am really interested in lightroom, I only use the iPhoto processing right now. Let me know if you find lightroom worth the price!
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I’ll certainly let you know Dee, so far we’ve only spent about one hour using it 😦
The problem I now have with the Adobe software is the fact that it’s subscription based, rather than the one off payment that it used to be! From the little I’ve seen, for black & white conversions, neither photoshop or lightroom are a patch on the Nik Silver Efex Pro software, I know these plugins can be added to photoshop, but I use them as standalone plugins, and they still work brilliantly like that 🙂
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