Snail going for a stroll on the flower of a red Gerbera Daisy. The Gerbera Daisy is a genus of ornamental plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). The surreal colours are created by changing the color and white balance while taking the picture. The turquoise/bleu/green background has a strong contrast with the pink/red of the flower.
Snail is a common name that is applied most often to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name "snail" is also applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract completely into.
In its own way Mirakels Kiekje makes the small world big and the big world even bigger. The camera brings far away close, lets light play with dark, makes colourless or just more colourful, brings a still life to life, fantasy to reality and reality to.. Read more…