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Stick insects are a group of plant feeding insects characterised by a remarkable similarity to their host vegetation. Stick insects belong to the insect order Phasmatodea and are found throughout the world, being most common and diverse in the tropics. There are about 3,500 described species throughout the world and many undescribed species. Stick insects are related to other insect orders such as Orthoptera (grasshoppers, weta, and crickets), Mantophasmatodea (gladiators), and Embioptera (web spinners). The higher level taxonomy of stick insects and their relationships to other insects is currently being researched.
Stick insects feed on vegetation and are usually active after dark. They can be found on a variety of native plants in addition to some introduced plants common in gardens. When disturbed, stick insects will often fall to the ground and “play dead” for hours. Another bizarre behaviour is the “dance”, where the stick insect sways back and forwards for hours in a peculiar motion, the function of which is a mystery. Many stick insect species, including some New Zealand species, can reproduce without males, a mode of reproduction known as parthenogenesis. Stick insects are relatively common in New Zealand although introduced wasps, rats and possums are a threat in some areas.
This "bird on a stick" capture was taken along the Meadowbrook at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. The Song Sparrow soon moved on to new adventures.
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Hi everyone :)
hope everyone has had a great weekend so far:)
still no new images, so a reprocessed image for today:)
processed this a little different using and i am quite happy with how this one turned out:)
hope you like it as well?
learned a couple of new things lately, have been reading a bit and i try out new approaches when i think they can benefit my images:)
getting alot of flickrmails with questions about how i process my images, and i thought i could say a bit about it:)
filters used for this shot was a nd8 screw on, Lee filters 0.9 and 0.75 soft grads stacked together.
used two shot for this one, manually blended in a little brighter fg area around the rocks sticking up, giving the image the fg light that it needs:) they where "developed" in Acr to my liking and saved as 16 bit tiffs.
when i got the pictures blended the way i want it i use colorefex, using the filters Brilliance/Warmth, skylight filter and White neutralizer:)) i just experiment until i get the colors i like:)
i also add one layer of the image in B&W and use soft light in blend mode and adjust opacity to my liking:)
after that i use Noisewear Proffesional for sharpening and denoising, here i also "experiment" until i get the result i like:)
and to finish thing i use luminosity mask, sometimes only one colors other times depending on what colors and areas i want to "pop" up:))
lol i know i suck at explaining:)
and of course i straighten the horizon, crop and resize for web before posting:))
well well, hope this can be of help to anyone:)
anyways i wanna thank you for the response on my last shot:))
take care and have a great rest of the weekend:))
Johnny .))
This male Great Blue Heron makes his way back to the nest to present this somewhat muddy stick slung over his back to his mate during their construction of their nest. Unlike most of their avian brethren Great Blue Heron populations have done well over the past 5 decades, tending to increase in numbers.
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Maybe not the most obvious to photograph, but this Stick which once have been a small Tree, it was "looking" at me as if it want to tell me a story and there was a tiny weak Sunbeam, lightning it up a bit. I used aperture 2.0, so it could be more separated from the background. Nice to meet you Stick.
Found this cutie at the Iowa State Fair last summer - a walking stick with this decorative head for sale in a Novelty tent. I couldn't resist the shot!
Sometimes it held itself perfectly straight so it looked like a stick. When it walked, it held its abdomen upright so it looked like Thing from the Addams Family.
"Detroit, Michigan. Boys in the Polish district." Cropped from an acetate negative by John Vachon for the U.S. Foreign Information Service, 1942.
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another shot from my latest session:))
different kinda composition, but i like it:))
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Louisiana based US Air Force 20thBS / 2nd BW's Boeing B-52H Stratofortress 61-0020/LA 'The Big Stick' at rest at Fairford during Operation 'Epic Fury'
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Light stick, just shake to activate a chemical reaction ... bright and fun! Bâton lumineux, il suffit de l'agiter pour activer une réaction chimique...lumineuse et amusante, HMM!
In the depts of the Bensenville industrial district, MARC E9AM 91, still painted in its Burlington Northern "Hockey Stick" livery, sits in storage with a cut of retired Metra bi-level coaches in an industrial lead that splits off of the CPKC Northwest Bridge Subdivision behind Ace Metal Crafts Company. Even though this locomotive may look like a pile of vandalized rust now, MARC 91 was built nearby in the EMD LaGrange plant as CB&Q E8A 9973 in August 1953 as one of the many striking streamliners pumped out of the plant by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division. The E8As powered passenger trains throughout the Burlington system until the Burlington Northern merger in 1970, and still served the BN and Amtrak on both freight and passenger service up into their rebuilds in the late 1970s by Morrison-Knudsen. CB&Q 9973, now BN 9973, was rebuilt by MK in May 1978 at their Boise shops into BN E9AM 9907, and operated on the then newly formed RTA commuter railroad, later Metra, along with the other E9AMs where they gained their fame running high-speed passenger trains on the Racetrack around the Chicago area in a flashy "Hockey Stick" livery with the iconic candy cane stripes on the nose. The E9AMs were finally retired in 1992 after a successful 4 decades of service, and were sent to Maryland to work on the MARC; a long ways from home rails. BN 9907 was renumbered to MARC 67, and worked around the MARC system up into the 1990s and early 2000s before getting replaced by newer up-to-date power. A few of the E9AMs, including the now renumbered MARC 91, ended up back in the Chicago area. Unfortunately, MARC 91 has since been completely gutted, and years of neglect has caused a horrible amount of corrosion to the body. Vandals have also damaged the locomotive throughout its years sitting in Bensenville. Although MARC 91 has miraculously made its way back to home territory, MARC 91's life has essentially came to an end sitting as a shell of its former self just a stone toss away from where it all began.
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CPKC Northwest Bridge Subdivision
Bensenville Industry Lead
Bensenville, Illinois, USA
May 23, 2025
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS