another story telling shot

I wrote on Monday about how a photograph can tell a story and showed you an example of one.  Well, just like buses, here's another one.

Now, I could have pressed the shutter on this image of a snail earlier when he was fully on the leaf, or later when he was fully on the bamboo cane.  And either would have been fine as a study of a snail.  

But to tell a story?

That takes timing!  In this case waiting (patiently I'd add - this was only a tiny snail and not exactly rapid after all) until he was in the act of transferring from the former to the latter makes the image so much more interesting, illustrating the little creature's struggles as well as still providing an anatomical study of the mollusc come gastropod.

Luckily it was so slow that I could employ a smaller aperture allowing me to get more in focus in a single frame while not worrying about the longer shutter duration or having to boost the camera's ISO.

Fujifilm X-H2, Laowa 65mm f2.8 ultra-macro
1/20th of a second at f11, ISO 125
handheld

One last thing, when processing the image, I rotated it 90 degrees anticlockwise.  The reason? It just looked better that way around!  There are no rules!