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Messing around with macros and strobes. I can see now that I needed more depth of field. Next time I guess I'll drag out the big strobe.
This snail is only about 1/2 inch across and that gives you a sense of how small the Horsetail is. Horsetails grow in wet places. Horsetail or Equisetum arvense is derived from the Latin equus, meaning "horse," and seta, "bristle."
An herbal remedy dating back to Greece and Rome, It has been used to stop bleeding, heal ulcers, wounds, TB and kidney problems. Today, Horsetail stems are used to mend broken bones and form collagen and as a supplement to treat and prevent osteoporosis.
Horsetail is a descendant of huge, tree-like plants that thrived 400 million years ago during the Paleozoic era. Dried Horsetail has silica crystals in it and has been used historically to polish metals, especially pewter.
Biscayne Park, FL
Ein leeres Haus auf eisigem Grund....
An abandoned housing on frosty ground...
Aufnahmedatum: 05.02.2012
usually I'm not that nature photographer, but sometimes i "must" use my macro lens to shoot nature things that i love.
And i think, a snail shell is a wonderful artwork by nature
Home can be anywhere, for it is a part of one's self.
- Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson, The Butlerian Jihad
Woolen cottage just for Your household - gnomes or garden - fairies...
Snail family may be welcomed subtenant as well as the best fiend :-)
Waldorf inspired one-of-a-kind handmade toy intended for all the forever-young fairytale lovers.
Woolen parts are hand-felted combinating wett and needle felting of plant dyed natural woolfell.
One-roomed house of 4,75" (12cm) diameter and 6" (15cm) hight, antenna included 9" (23cm).
Added on May 7, 2009
Macro Monday theme: In the mirror
Small empty shell my wife and I found near the Clearwater River in Idaho.
An ambitious little climber, this little snail made it up a tree and out to this leaf.
2X zoom from the Pixel 7 Pro.
Taken on Maco TC 27 its a traffic control film but the same like Maco Cube 400c and also the photographic emulsion of Rollei R3 on a different film base.
Taken with Dynax (Maxxum) 9 and Sigma Ex 180mm F4 @F16.
Scan from Print on Agfa MCP.
The golden spiral of a Brown-lipped Snail (Cepaea nemoralis), also known as the Banded Snail!
This is the most colourful and variable snail in the UK. The shell may vary in colour, and in the presence of banded patterning. The shell can be yellow, pink or brown and can have up to five horizontal bands or none at all. The dark rim at the lip of the shell opening is nearly always present. The shell can reach a height of about 20 mm and a width of 25 mm. The surface of the shell is semi-glossy, and it has from 4.5 to 5.5 whorls.
The brown-lipped snail occupies a range of habitats including woodland, grassland, hedgerows and garden shrubs, and it is a
plant feeder on a wide range of fresh vegetation. It is common and widespread over much of Britain except in the far north of Scotland.
Seen on my way to work.
Helix pomatia, common names the Burgundy snail, Roman snail, edible snail or escargot, is a species of large, edible, air-breathing land snail. The snail (Helix pomatia) is grown up to 10 cm long and about 30 g of hard bearing housing land snail.
Snails are in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as in many other countries, under protection. In the wild they can reach an age of eight years.(Source: en.Wikipedia)
Dedicated to my dear friend Vie. She has fascinating snail photos in her stream!
Die Weinbergschnecke (Helix pomatia) ist ausgewachsen bis zu 10 cm lang und eine
etwa 30 g schwer, gehäusetragende Landschnecke. Sie kommt vor allem auf kalkreichen, feuchten Böden vor.
Weinbergschnecken stehen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz sowie auch in vielen anderen Ländern, unter Naturschutz.
In freier Natur kann sie ein Alter von acht Jahren erreichen. (Quelle: Wikipedia)
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... So whenever I longed to escape from the taunts of those who were cruel to me and be happy...
I would listen to the little sea shell sing me a sweet lullaby...
Letting the waves crash through my ear and drift me away to a secret island inside my heart...
Where there were happy people, singing and dancing beside the most beautiful sandy shore you could ever imagine...
There's a whole world inside my little sea shell....”
― My Little Sea Shell by KarmaKat
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..... summer memories ♥
Taken at Ravenmeols and Cabin Hill LNR along the Sefton Coast (Merseyside), I encountered this snoozing snail as I leant on a fallen Scots Pine to have s snack. I like the way the patterns on the bark and snail shell are similar and think that it might be possible that's why the snail chose to sleep there... maybe
Likely Colorful Moon Snail / Gaudy Nautica — Naticarius canrena
Family: Naticidae, the moon snails.
Confidence: moderate-high. The shell is photographed from the back, not the aperture/umbilicus side, so I would not call it absolute. But the smooth globular form, low spire, and broad pale spiral bands crossed by darker brown wavy/zigzag markings fit Naticarius canrena well. Shell Museum describes Colorful Moon Snails as variable, but typically with broad light-brown spiral bands alternating with darker transverse wavy streaks; another shell reference describes N. canrena as smooth, globe-shaped, with spiral color bands crossed by axial zigzag marks.
Description
This is a rounded, glossy marine gastropod shell with a bulbous body whorl and a short stepped spire. The surface has a polished porcelain-like sheen. The coloration is gray-white to bluish-white with chestnut-brown patches and bands, arranged in irregular spiral and transverse blocks. Some beach wear is visible, especially along the whorls and high points, but the shell retains strong pattern and gloss.
Discussion
This is probably a moon snail, not a conch or whelk. Moon snails generally have globular shells and live in sandy marine habitats. Naticarius canrena is a Western Atlantic/Caribbean species; WoRMS lists its range broadly through the Western Atlantic and Caribbean, including North Carolina, Florida, Texas, Bermuda, the West Indies, parts of South America, and other records.
Moon snails are predators. They move through sand and prey mainly on bivalves and other shelled mollusks, often drilling a neat, beveled circular hole through the prey shell. Their egg masses are the familiar sand collars sometimes found on beaches.
Close look-alikes:
The main alternatives are other patterned moon snails, especially Mediterranean/Old World Naticarius species such as Naticarius hebraeus or Naticarius stercusmuscarum. If this shell came from Florida, the Gulf, the Caribbean, or the western Atlantic,
Naticarius canrena is the better fit. If it came from the Mediterranean or a mixed purchased shell lot,
I would keep the identification at Naticarius sp. rather than species level.