Small snail hanging on the flower bud of a Poppy flower. The surreal colours are created by changing the color and white balance while taking the picture. The bleu/green background gives the picture a mystic atmosphere. A Poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae. Poppies are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colorful flowers.
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…