Snails

I still have more road trip photos to post but I'll take a break for something different. It rained Friday night and Saturday morning and when I went for my long run there were lots of snails out on the sidewalk. On the way back I picked up a few and zipped them into the pocket of my rain jacket. It was funny because I could feel them crawling around inside the pocket. iNaturalist says these are Brown-lipped Snails - yet another import.

First I took some staged shots indoors with black and white backgrounds. Which do you like best? The snails vary quite a lot in coloring so I used a lighter one for the black background and a darker one for the white background.

For a more natural look I put them on one of our garden plants. They don't move very fast, but they don't stop and if I spent too much time fiddling with my camera they'd be on their way to escape.

After I released them near where I found them, I took a few more photos in a more realistic (but more cluttered) setting.

This one decided to climb a stalk of grass. I'm not sure where it thought that would get them.

See all the photos in this batch.