exploring new frontiers

Not me - but the tiny snail that is the subject of this week's post!

I was cutting back an ivy in the front garden when all of a sudden I spotted this little snail.  It can't have been more than 5mm in length and I was lucky, or rather it was lucky, that I spotted it just in time before my secateurs ploughed through its shell.

Anyway, I moved it to a much safer place and then watched for a while as it settled onto a leaf in its new home. 

Then I rushed (well, you have to with snails) to get my camera and snapped this lovely image of it exploring its new surroundings.  I think it tells such a lovely story.

Fujifilm X-T4, Nikkor 105mm f2.8 Macro, Beschoi Nikon X to Fujifilm F adapter
1/640th of a second at f2.8, ISO 160
handheld

This week's video has nothing at all to do with snails - other than the pace you can see me walking at as I take a stroll in nature with my phone as my main camera after seemingly everything else has gone wrong.