700+ photographs · four years · macro
Perhaps the largest collection of artistic snail photography in the world.
Four years of photographing surprise visitors after every rain — which doesn't happen a lot in Southern California. A few of the photos are large Bavarian snails that I took while on vacation in Germany.
No snail was ever touched or moved for a photo.
This is how I found them.
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Selected work
Twelve from the archive. Shared small on purpose — full-resolution files are reserved for licensed use.
Today's snail
The archive
Seventy-two highlights from an archive of 700+ photographs — four years, one square of wet grass at a time.
The story
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Four years at a snail's pace
It started with one snail on one leaf after a September rain in 2022. Four years later the archive holds more than 700 photographs, all taken on a cell phone.
No snails were ever touched or moved for any of these photos.
The archive is compiled by Alex Striler and grows with every rain.
Take ten home
Any 10 photographs, $25.
Browse the archive, click the ten you like best, and I'll email you the high-resolution files. Use them for whatever you want — postcards, posters, prints, book covers, website graphics, packaging, wallpaper. No expiry, no renewals, no per-use fees.
- Ten high-resolution photographs — full camera resolution, straight from the original files.
- Yours to use, commercially or personally. Print them, sell what you make with them, put them on a website.
- Non-exclusive — other people can buy the same photographs. That's what keeps it $25 instead of hundreds.
- Delivered by email within 24 hours, with a plain-English note confirming your right to use them.
Selected images are also available through Adobe Stock and Alamy.
A gift, no strings attached: download a free phone wallpaper from the archive.
