The flexible invertebrate "Arion ater" (Arionidae) with slimy trail, a big black slug, had just crept out of daytime hideout, photogenically extending her feelers. On bended knees I struggled to put the camera ON etc. into an appropriate position closing up on the head of the tough and flexible, sluggishly bending primeval. The flashlight reflexions of the surrounding bright sands have given a tasty colour to the orange-brown coaster of the black 'liquorice' ... Photo was taken when the dawn began to arrive. Under a cloudy sky at 20.06 pm (MEZ), - immediately before the sunset.