Gorgeous capture, You can feature this beauty by creating you own threadGood macro. I love taking photographs of snails as their shell colours and designs are so varied. plus they don't move much lol. Snail pic taken with D7000 1/60 iso 250 105 mm nikon f13 daylight.
If you just play a little bit with the flash and get use to it you never need tripod just for long exposure. I personally use a soft box or just bounce the flash to get more pleasing lightI hope to get another, with my tripod next time ^^ I don"t like to use flash ...
Yes yes a Snail Theme would be most awesome GregGreat too Bihari ! What is your softbox ? I really think we must create a snail theme ^^