Today's shoot was a little larger than normal and when I mean large...I mean the Snails! This was my first shoot photographing our common snails cousin...the African Snail. Having a larger subject matter meant I had to build a much bigger set up. As the snails are roughly the size of my hand, a branch or a flower simply wouldn't be big enough to hold their weight but I was lucky because half way up the river there was some left over wood from a recently built bridge that I was able to commandeer. Now if you consider trying something like this, I would recommend planning your shoot before hand because as these creatures are from a different climate they do not take kindly to the cold weather. In the process of editing through pictures, work to be added shortly to the Macro Section:
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