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I went out to get the mail tonight and found this little guy in my yard. Grasshoppers have the weirdest looking eyes. He was quite small. Out front, a few years ago, I planted a Weeping Cherry tree as a memorial tree on my parents heavenly anniversary. There is a memorial stone at the bottom of the tree in the grass with a light on it. I went to trim a couple of the branches that were blocking the stone and this guy was hanging on it.
One of my favourite birds. All these so called 'birders' who're only interested in photographing raptors, if I had the choice between birds of prey and song birds, I would chose song birds every time. I mean come on, check out that sound, what a beautiful addition to the countryside.
A grasshopper that I caught in our front garden. This was photo was created using a focus stack of 84 photos taken using a Schneider f2.8 40mm APO lens reverse mounted using bellows. Lighting was from a diffused flash.
The Grasshopper is a light mech designed by the Tongorian Union
It is super quick and manouverable. It can jump 50 meter in non-rocket assist mode, more if its twin rocket boosters kick in.
It's armed with 2 152mm coilguns (firing tandem-warhead HEAT rounds). With this weapon it can destroy any vehicle. If not, it can jump and engage it from above.
Against soft-skinned targets, it has a quad-barel 14.5mm coil-minigun.
It is fully autonomous and with its radars it can detect the smallest movements and sounds from far away.
The Grasshopper is a really smart drone, being able to calculate the most complex manouvers in nano-seconds, like mid-air aiming and landing on rough terrain.
A little story for it:
You are sitting in your trench, awaiting orders. You hear some muffled noise in the distance. Someone yells:
- Grasshoppers incoming at 11!
You immedietely stand up and see the 10 Grasshoppers popping in and out of the trees, rapidly closing on you. You reach for your rifle, but you know you can't damage them, you would need something bigger.
The Grasshoppers reach 1km, which is the maximum range for their guns. Suddenly, all 20 152mm howitzers start firing in mid-air at your position, in air-burst mode.
Explosions everywhere. Debris and bodyparts flying around. This goes on for terribly long 30 seconds. You are shaking when all of a sudden everything goes quiet. Somehow, you survived the barrage. The howitzers stopped firing, you clearly hear their steps now and the moaning of the survivors of the carnage. Smell of burnt flesh and clothes is in the air. Dust is flying everywhere. You can barely see anything.
You know they are close. You don't want to, but you can't resist the urge to look out.
You slowly stand up, finger on the trigger, you see the edge of the trench. Finally, you gather enough courage to stick your head out.
A Grasshopper stands a few meters in front of you, hunting down remaining survivors. You know its radar already detected you, but you are just standing there frozen. It starts turning quick. It is now looking at you. You stare into its deep and empty black eyes, no emotions shown, nothing. Last thing you see is how the gatling spins up and then a small and quick flash. It felt like an eternity for you, yet it was only a fraction of a second.
You are lying there, motionless in your trench, that you digged, your very own grave.
The mechs head back to base. They were victorious this time.
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This grasshopper was on a chair on my deck the last few days. I took 50 shots and combined them in software to get this much depth of field. Being this close with a macro lens means the DOF is very shallow. Plus, this image was only cropped slightly - the original is around 7000 x 5000 pixels! Amazingly, the only thing he moved during these 50 shots (which go off quite rapidly) was his one antenna, which didn't resolve in the shot! My lens was less than 3 inches from him!
I was taking a photo of this orchid when a grasshopper landed on it... and grabbed my attention.
Handheld, natural light, cropped.