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He came out after rain, in front of my house...
Exhibited as part of Snails exhibition of photography 2017 organized by Italian community in Galižana (Croatia).
Kamera Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Belichtung 0,005 sec (1/200)
Blende f/14.0
Brennweite 180 mm
ISO-Empfindlichkeit 500
Das Regenwetter zur Zeit ist optimal für Schnecken :)
The rainy weather here in W-Germany is optimal for snails :)
White-lipped snail (Cepaea hortensis) on a lichen-covered stone.
Wstężyk ogrodowy (Cepaea hortensis) na pokrytym porostami kamieniu.
What a wet day today but great news, our two sojourns have arrived, A chattering Swallow arrived late morning, sat on the new scaffold, over an old building, at Glen Dimplex, just over the Rd. This has me worried now as whether they will stick around and for that matter it they have their nesting site blocked up. The second Swallow arrived early evening, they have been chattering in the rain and on the wire. Hope they stay for the summer.
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Yesterday I was picking a lot of snails from some plants in my garden and came up with the idea to have a race. Big guy won. (The one on the right never crossed the start, some beer got spoilt there and I think he enjoyed that).
No animals got hurt in the production of this photo ;-)
title inspired by ariana bauer
first attempt of fruit splash. i chose a kiwi because was the only splashable fruit at home :) green food dye for colouring the milk.
strobist info
one flash behind a plexiglass for background and another flash at left high from the camera at 1 meter of splash. the two flash at 1/8.
if you have advices i wait them,this kind of shot is perfectable.
inspiration david kitos
www.flickr.com/photos/david_kittos/4326467186/in/set-7215...
Through my years of experience documenting train action along the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority’s 74-mile mainline, I’ve vehemently avoided chasing nearly any sort movement north of Hialeah Yard. Whether it be Amtrak, TriRail or CSX, the unpredictability of local or highway roadway conditions could make or break a successful chase. Any tenured driver would know that I-95 can be devolve into mayhem at any moment, on any stretch, most evident during weekday rush hour. Even the simplest traffic stops initiated by the Florida Highway Patrol can back up traffic for miles, inching ahead at a snails’ pace; trust me, I’ve seen it myself on many occasions. The one highway that conveniently parallels the mainline all the way up to Mangonia Park, ironically, ain’t all that convenient for a chase-crazed local buff.
However, as the old adage goes, “rules are meant to be broken.”
My first visit to Control Point WHALEN to photograph the wave of Saturday afternoon southbound trains down the SFRTA Corridor had proven to be a spectacular success, having logged Amtrak P09116 [‘Silver Star’], CSX L79317, and Amtrak P09716 [‘Silver Meteor’] back-to-back-to-back in the span of 30 minutes. Through garbled radio static, RTA Dispatch would order to L79317 hold on Track 3 at CP S DANIA to allow the ‘Silver Meteor’ and TriRail traffic to bypass the slower empty rock train. Thus, a critical question arose: do I call it a day and head home with the three trains under my belt, or do I push further south down the mainline to intercept L79317 again once they get underway? My mind couldn’t be made up until I took into account one obvious, crucial detail… L79317 had a pair of SD70MACe’s.
Traffic on I-95 south miraculously played in my favor as I shot down towards Golden Glades in roughly 20 minutes, dispelling any qualms I had regarding chasing on the Corridor—at least on weekends. Control Point HARDY would come in clutch that day, it’s a tried-and-spot for afternoon southbounds with viable sunlight nearly year-round, excluding the winter season. Miraculously, I’d make it to my spot there before L79317 even had a favorable signal indication to proceed south out of S DANIA.
A break in the cloud cover to the west showered the scene in a luscious golden tint right as CSX L79317 popped around the corner a mile to the north, following TriRail P68517 south towards Hialeah. The pair of SD70MACe rebuilds, #CSX4569 and #CSX4555, guide their 109 empties through the crossover under NE 183rd St and into a pocket of sun in the last 52 minutes of daylight, the iconic growl of the locomotives’ 16-710G3 prime movers reverberating out from under the bridge. By diverging onto Track 2 at HARDY, the RTA dispatcher can have a quicker route for L79317 to get into Hialeah Yard at CP TOMPKINS, preventing a scenario where L79317 would have to drag its feet across both mains down there instead. In the moment where this behemoth of a freight train was in front of me, however, what mattered was that the MACe’s weren’t in the tree shadows, dropping my shutter in the crucial few seconds to capture what I now consider to be one of the best shots of CSX’s SD70MACe’s in my collection. One stumble off my step-ladder, a rock wedged into my elbow, and a pat on my back later, the light vanished as fast as L79317’s end of train device did whirring by, putting a cap on my last outing for the month of August.
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Miami Gardens, FL
SFRTA Mainline [CP HARDY]
Date: 08/17/2025 | 19:03
ID: CSX L79317
Type: Empty Rock
Direction: Southbound
Car Count: 109
1. CSX SD70MACe #4569
2. CSX SD70MACe #4555
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© Vicente Alonso 2025
Project 365
2014/06/20-354/365 帶著蝸牛散步(Walking with a snail)
有一個關於小蝸牛的故事非常有意思，
今天拍了小蝸牛，
就貼上這篇小故事和大家分享！！^^
~上帝給我一個任務
叫我牽一隻蝸牛去散步。
我不能走太快，
蝸牛已經盡力爬，為何每次總是那麼一點點？
我催它，我唬它，我責備它，
蝸牛用抱歉的眼光看著我，
彷彿說：「人家已經盡力了嘛！」
我拉它，我扯它，甚至想踢它，
蝸牛受了傷，它流著汗，喘著氣，往前爬…
真奇怪，為什麼上帝叫我牽一隻蝸牛去散步？
「上帝啊！為什麼？」
天上一片安靜。
「唉！也許上帝抓蝸牛去了！」
好吧！鬆手了！
反正上帝不管了，我還管什麼？
讓蝸牛往前爬，我在後面生悶氣。
咦？我聞到花香，原來這邊還有個花園，
我感到微風，原來夜裏的微風這麼溫柔。
慢著！我聽到鳥叫，我聽到蟲鳴。
我看到滿天的星星多亮麗！
咦？我以前怎麼沒有這般細膩的體會？
我忽然想起來了，莫非我錯了？
~ 是上帝叫一隻蝸牛牽我去散步。~ ^^
The Banded Black Snake was unknown to science until a road-killed specimen was collected on September 23rd, 2003. Only a handful of these snakes have been seen alive and we were fortunate enough to see two alive individuals and a single DOR (dead on road) in the mountains of the northern Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico. This species, much like their tropical relatives in the Genus Sibon, feed primarily on slugs and snails.