A locust and a snail

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I found myself next to a grain field today.That is not uncommon for me, but rarely is the grain fully grown and unharvested and with me and my camera in it’s proximity.

So here are some pictures of Romanian grain (wheat), not that there is anything special about it except for the fact that this region and this land produced it for more than a thousand years.

 

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I never really liked snails, especially before last year when I started taking nature pictures (I thought they were slimy and way to big) . But the garden after it has rained is a joy to immortalize, not only the plants are covered in water drops that almost sparkle, the light is somehow different but because there is an abundance of small snails. Usually I see large slow snails, but after a long rain period there are many fast and tiny ones that rush up and down poles, sturdy leaves and even on top of flowers .

Looking back at these pictures I can almost like this snail, it was fast, it was small and it had a nice color (what else could I want from it).

Know someone who dose not like insects or nature very much, send them here.

 

 

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Please let me know witch photo you like best, so I can improve. Click to enlarge. Thank you!

 

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I like the color of rust. I down’t know why, I cannot be the only one.   The depth of the  red… the nuances the color takes as it undulates on to itself , the contrast with the shades of green, all toped with the pure white the flowers take in the cover of shade.

 

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There is something about the richness of green in a cloudy day after hours of rain.

I don’t typically take pictures on cloudy days however  when the weather decides to reduce your garden’s water consumption  for weeks and weeks (thank you weather), you cannot complain, you can only go outside and take pictures of water drops on plants and the occasional snail .

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I took these pictures  in the last minutes of light in a very hot mid-May day.  The light was like this for about two minutes, time in which I snapped as many pictures as I could (one millimeter in each direction and I would have lost it). I rarely find this opportunity as I love this kind of effects in movies and pictures.

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I took these pictures this Saturday (31 May), after it pored for days, the snails were everywhere (even on top of flowers) and there were a lot of them.  They were using the leafs as streets and in more than one occasion the smaller (and faster) snail was bypassing the larger stationary snail by gowning under the leaf.

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I shot these yesterday morning, yesterday in the afternoon (in the rain) and today, when I was surprised to see it was blooming with no sun to mention of. Pictures are arranged chronologically.

Pictures from today: Garden after rain

Today rained for 20 hours. I managed to run outside on two occasions when the rain decided to have a break.  So the pictures will have a gloomier light but they’ll compensate with the deep colors the plants have on this end of spring day.