I've Got My Eye on You
A very small snail (shell 12 mm) back-lit by strong sunshine on my colourful Phormium 'Jester' plant, shot with a Raynox DCR-250 mounted on the front of my macro lens.
For Macro Mondays theme 'Eye'.
I had initially wanted to try to photograph just a single eye of the snail glowing with the backlight, so needed the Raynox attachment - but this proved impossible, as the snail moved quickly enough to be out of the frame before I could get a good focus on the eye. So I had to pull back with the camera and capture the whole snail - I got lucky with this image as one of the eyes was nicely backlit, while the other eye was only visible as a shadow on the leaf so the emphasis is still on the single eye.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.
I've Got My Eye on You
A very small snail (shell 12 mm) back-lit by strong sunshine on my colourful Phormium 'Jester' plant, shot with a Raynox DCR-250 mounted on the front of my macro lens.
For Macro Mondays theme 'Eye'.
I had initially wanted to try to photograph just a single eye of the snail glowing with the backlight, so needed the Raynox attachment - but this proved impossible, as the snail moved quickly enough to be out of the frame before I could get a good focus on the eye. So I had to pull back with the camera and capture the whole snail - I got lucky with this image as one of the eyes was nicely backlit, while the other eye was only visible as a shadow on the leaf so the emphasis is still on the single eye.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.