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Welcome to 52Photos, a year in images 2011. 52Photos started in January of 2010 as an effort to capture 2010, one week at a time, through the eye of a camera lens. I've enjoyed the process immensely, and have been thankful for all the amazing feedback I've gotten as a response to my images, stories, and thoughts throughout the year. I'll be continuing with the blog through 2011 with a slightly new look, but still providing 52 images and some thoughts to go along with them. Technical to abstract, social commentary and just plain fun, you'll find a mix of topics, variety of images, and hopefully, something you will enjoy following along. I've had a number of people ask "where can I buy a print??". The answer is an easy one... select images are available by clicking here. Of course you can just send me a message too, I'd love to hear from ya!

-daniel gaines

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Snails Pace

Week 21


Snail's Pace
May 25, 2010

I know it wasn't looking at me, but I couldn't help but feel like I was interrupting this guy's day. Those little antennae-eyes pointed right at me.... Maybe it was looking at me, saying "can't a snail hang out with some snail-bros without some papparazzo gettin' all up in my face?" Ok, snails have brains akin to houseplants, but that's what I was thinking as I discovered these guys just off the back porch, a bunch of them just hanging out, eating I assume and having a little snail-party.

The first photos I took straight down on top of the snails, but started to shoot at ground level and got the best shots (including the image above). Amazing what you can capture just by changing your point of view. Things look different when you take a different angle, a different approach. Sometimes you even find that you were looking at your subject wrong all along, and you wouldn't have known it without taking the opportunity to shift perspectives. A lot of similarities between life and photography, I suppose.


image taken with Canon 5D, 24-105 f4L IS lens, at 1/200 f/4.0, ISO 800
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