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Photography

flamin lib

(14,559 posts) Fri Jun 19, 2020, 10:53 PM Jun 2020

EDIT to fix title. Contest is NOT closed. Sorry for the misinformation.

Last edited Sat Jun 20, 2020, 12:49 PM - Edit history (1)

I'll share this one with you guys. From the archives:

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One of about 40 I shot moving him from plant to plant. Used a mister to get the dew drops on the plant leaves. That's when I found out that snails don't have surface tension. Surface tension is what makes water bead up like it's repelled from the surface it's on. Snails don't have that. S/He is encapsulated in a raindrop. Its like he's snorkeling along the leaf.

Same basic setup I use for all my macro stuff.