SLR 680 Gold PX600

あの日はとても怖かったです。

テレビの中の映像も

揺れ続ける地面も

鳴り続ける地震速報も

でも同時に友人やご近所さんや

見知らぬ人達の優しさや

画面の向こうの会ったことがない人達の

優しさがとても有難かったです。

まだ以前のような生活に戻れてない方も沢山いらっしゃるからこそ

この国に住んでいるからこそ

忘れないで、そして少しずつできることを。

thanks for praying for japan.

Mantis Religiosa

Watching the watcher.

Waiting for the mothership to return.

Thank you, oh Great Orbomine, for my food every day-

such as it is-

"Why did you look at me that way?"

-And thank you for playing outside with me- whenever I'm allowed to go out, that is-

"Again with the looks!"

-But thank you most, Great Orbomine, for giving me a Dad who is healthy and never tires of playing ball with me when I AM allowed outside. I love him.

"Sniff, sniff...I love you, too, Clancy."

Amen to that.

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Abandoned (Kemp) road, Ottawa, Ontrio

408. Clancy, 7yrs 20wks

Clancy's YEARBOOK 8: www.flickr.com/photos/130722340@N04/albums/72157711807199236

Spotted this little beauty on the door frame of our hotel room in Majorca

Prions Prie Pray

Pour l'Humanité

For Humanité

For all Life on Earth

Earth

xxxxxxx

NICE

#JePriePriePrie

Simone xxxxx

iPhone shot edited in Apple's "Photos". Liopetri, Cyprus. The tree is a Frangipani plant.

Small immature mantis (Miomantis caffra) on a swan plant.

Manipulated infra red photo

Sunnyvale, CA

Praying Girl,

Used: Pixabay girl-15780,Artensoft_Photo_Collage_Maker, Filter Forge, Photoshop

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Click on the link to know more about the truth and facts of the CCP persecuting Christians!

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People pray for the hostages inside the Oakdale Federal Prison at a Pentecostal church after Cuban inmates rioted and took control of the facility in 1987.

Baton Rouge newspaper work, 1987

iPhone shot edited in Apple's "Photos". Liopetri, Cyprus. The tree is a Frangipani plant, a favourite hunting ground for this incredible predator it seems.

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... funny how the elements in this photo looked like they were manually overlaid - hmmm.

This is one of my most favorite creations so far!

I am not 100% sure what kind of Praying mantis this actually is, but I looked it up and it appears to be a, "Green Praying Mantis".

The banding is pretty bad on this with all of the gradations in it.

Scientific name: Mantodea

Found this beast of the macro world today in some late day sunlight after I got home from work. So I pulled out the long lens and the 100mm to get some captures. This one was taken with the 100mm lens closer in to get the praying mantis' upper body and head.

This Praying Mantis captured a House Wren and is trying to pull it out of the nest box. It is amazing the size of the prey they will capture!

This is the nest box I put up in an emergency for the House Wrens. It is made from a piece of 4 inch pvc pipe, suspended from an overhanging board which is fixed to a piece of pipe. I splattered black paint on it to make it look like a piece of birch wood. Total cost - about $1.00.

Taken in New Jersey, USA

***************************************UPDATE******************************************

All the babies fledged this morning (07/07/07)

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I found this mantis on the same exact branch two consecutive days, they like to sit still...

Love this praying mantis, he was hiding in the flowers and posed for me.

Praying mantis on a window.