As a bit of a team-building exercise, one of my coworkers has started a "daily photo" challenge. Every day he chooses a photo that he took and asks for photos along the same theme. Sometimes I'm able to pull photos from my archive that match the theme, and sometimes it inspires me to go out and take a new photo.

I don't remember what the exact theme was, but on this occasion his photo had a snail in it and some water. Luckily, we have quite a few snails around the pool this summer, so I was able to go outside, find a snail, relocate it onto a wet inflatable ball, and get this picture with my macro lens. I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out!

Technical Details: This picture was taken with my 5D Mark II + EF 100mm Macro at ISO 100, f/3.2 for 1/100th of a second.