It is an unusual experience that I had the other day!
I have been doing some close up shots of insects & bees the last few weeks. Last evening at the nearby park I was scouting for something interesting to capture when I saw some kids running around with excitement on something.
As I walked close I saw a group of snails crossing the sidewalks and the kids were trying to touch and track that.
As I saw one fully retracted inside its shell -thought it might be a good subject to watch it come out of its shell and started calming the kids and started taking a position for its visit out of its home.
Some of the pictures I took were giving me an unusual feeling and excitement about what I was watching. Looking through the eyes of a Macro certainly gives a different perspective of even that slow moving snail!
After a good set of photos I was ready to call it victory and stepped to a park bench to review the snaps I had taken.
I was happy - but also know that i could have done better with different settings. As I was debating whether to revisit the snail - i saw a kid running to me and she started telling me that the snail is dead!
I re-assured the kid that the snail is playing dead to be safe - and the kid insisted that it is dead! So As I walked closer to the snail the kid said she knew who squished it!
For a moment I was stunned hearing that- as I had just become so close to that Snail! As I started seeing the set of pictures that I had just minutes ago taken - i felt more uneasy about what had just happened.
Suddenly it became personal and sad!
I have been doing some close up shots of insects & bees the last few weeks. Last evening at the nearby park I was scouting for something interesting to capture when I saw some kids running around with excitement on something.
As I walked close I saw a group of snails crossing the sidewalks and the kids were trying to touch and track that.
As I saw one fully retracted inside its shell -thought it might be a good subject to watch it come out of its shell and started calming the kids and started taking a position for its visit out of its home.
Some of the pictures I took were giving me an unusual feeling and excitement about what I was watching. Looking through the eyes of a Macro certainly gives a different perspective of even that slow moving snail!
After a good set of photos I was ready to call it victory and stepped to a park bench to review the snaps I had taken.
I was happy - but also know that i could have done better with different settings. As I was debating whether to revisit the snail - i saw a kid running to me and she started telling me that the snail is dead!
I re-assured the kid that the snail is playing dead to be safe - and the kid insisted that it is dead! So As I walked closer to the snail the kid said she knew who squished it!
For a moment I was stunned hearing that- as I had just become so close to that Snail! As I started seeing the set of pictures that I had just minutes ago taken - i felt more uneasy about what had just happened.
Suddenly it became personal and sad!
I am sure growing up every kid would have done the same - and I wouldn't have been any different.
But today with such close up photos and watching it in close quarters - it became very personal and difficult to digest what had just happened.
I just wanted to post these set of pictures not as a random set of pictures - but as portraits of a known Snail, who became unusually close after the shoot!
What was a casual outing for a close up experience became a somewhat sentimental experience with a different set of portraits!
