Speckled bush-cricket

At dusk the other day, this little Speckled bush-cricket (I think it's one) crawled around on the lawn at home. A little sluggish, it moved slowly and I followed with macro and flashes. On its way, it enters this red-blasted leaf and stops balancing on the edge of the leaf and licks its leg. I had a flash thrown out on the ground obliquely behind to the right, which illuminated the leaf, and then a flash from above from the left as main light. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to adjust the exposure to the maximum so the background became a bit dark.

Regardless, the little dance between us was the treasure of the evening. 😀 Shortly after this photo was taken, it used its powerful hind legs and flew away into invisibility ... I managed in some strange way to lift my old body to a barely standing position and staggered and stumbled to the warm abode of home...😆😂 happy in the mood like this on an autumn evening in October... and thought in my quiet mind.. it's all good and fine here at home anyway..😍

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