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Spotted this Grasshopper sitting on the edge of my tomato greenhouse. Luckily it didn't move, giving me enough time to get a few shots.
I wonder if it hung on to the car so long thinking it found a partner in the reflection. I like the lines and sahdows it produced.
This one was only small (1cm), and not very easy to get to. I used 56mm extension tubes and due to awkward position (i.e in the bush!) I had to hand hold the camera... so not the best composition, but still the best shot of the day as I lost the weather mid-shoot.
I was surprised to spot this grasshopper in the forest debris and I only spotted it not because it hopped but because it moved slowly presumably because of lack of energy at this time of year.
These are a few shot that I managed while eventually getting down to ground level and the images of me arising from the forest floor must have seemed like the pantomime season has d come early to Suffolk!!!
Quite a tale lay behind these uploads because as you do I looked at the images on the camera and all seemed reasonable however when we got home the memory card a Delkin Device failed and would not allow access to the images . I inserted it again in my camera but it claimed no images to view.
We had to drive to Colchester today where the shop very kindly recovered all the images and even replaced the faulty card . This is the second Delkin Device that has failed this year and we are lacking in trust of the product as we travel many miles in pursuit of subjects and spend days in attempts to get a shot and to find the images are no accessible is a worry!!
Has any other flickr members had similar problems?
The Squirrel & The Grasshopper, (REST OF THE WORLD VERSION)
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and
improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper
thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come
winter the squirrel is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no
food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
THE END
The Squirrel & The Grasshopper, (THE BRITISH VERSION)
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and
improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper
thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the Summer away. Come
winter the squirrel is warm and well fed.
A social worker finds the shivering grasshopper, calls a press conference
and demands to know why the squirrel should be allowed to be warm and well
fed while others less fortunate, like the grasshopper, are cold and
starving.
The BBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper; with
cuts to a video of the squirrel in his comfortable warm home with a table
laden with food.
The British press informs people that they should be ashamed that in a
country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so while
others have plenty. The Labour party, Greenpeace, Animal Rights and The
Grasshopper Council of GB demonstrate in front of the squirrel's house.
The BBC, interrupting a cultural festival special live from Notting Hill
with breaking news, broadcasts a multi cultural choir singing "We shall
overcome".
Ken Livingstone rants in an interview with Trevor McDonald that the squirrel
has gotten rich off the backs of the grasshoppers, and calls for an
immediate tax hike on the squirrel to make him pay his "fair share" and
increases the charge for squirrels to enter inner London.
In response to pressure from the media, the government drafts the Economic
Equity and Grasshopper Anti Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning
of summer. The squirrel's taxes are reassessed. He is taken to court and
fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as builders for the work he was doing
on his home and an additional fine for contempt when he told the court the
grasshopper did not want to work. The grasshopper is provided with a council
house, financial aid to furnish it and an account with a local taxi firm to
ensure he can be socially mobile. The squirrel's food is seized and
re-distributed to the more needy members of society, in this case the
grasshopper.
Without enough money to buy more food, to pay the fine and his newly imposed
retroactive taxes, the squirrel has to downsize and start building a new
home. The local authority takes over his old home and utilizes it as a
temporary home for asylum seeking cats who had hijacked a plane to get to
Britain as they had to share their country of origin with mice. On arrival
they tried to blow up the airport because of Britain's apparent love for
dogs. The cats had been arrested for the international offence of hijacking
and attempted bombing but were immediately released because the police fed
them pilchards instead of salmon whilst in custody. Initial moves to then
return them to their own country were abandoned because it was feared they
may face death by mice. The cats devise and start a scam to obtain money
from peoples credit cards.
A Panorama special shows the grasshopper finishing up the last of the
squirrel's food, though spring is still months away, while the council house
he is in crumbles around him because he hasn't bothered to maintain the
house. He is shown to be taking drugs. Inadequate government funding is
blamed for the grasshoppers "illness".
The cats seek recompense in the British courts for their treatment since
arrival in UK.
The grasshopper gets arrested for stabbing an old dog during a burglary to
get money for his drugs habit. He is imprisoned but released immediately
because he has been in custody for a few weeks. He is placed in the
supervisory care of the probation service to monitor him. Within a few weeks
he has killed a guinea pig in a botched robbery.
A commission of enquiry that will eventually cost 10,000,000 pounds and
state the obvious is set up.
Additional money is put into funding a drug rehabilitation scheme for
grasshoppers and legal aid for lawyers representing asylum seekers is
increased. The asylum seeking cats are praised by the government for
enriching Britain's multicultural diversity and dogs are criticized by the
government for failing to befriend the cats.
The grasshopper dies of a drug overdose. The usual sections of press blame
it on the failings of the government to address the root causes of despair
arising from social inequity and his traumatic experience in prison. They
call for the resignation of a minister.
The cats are paid a million pounds each because their rights were infringed
when the government failed to inform them there were mice in the UK.
The squirrel, the dogs and the victims of the hijacking, the bombing, the
burglaries and robberies have to pay an additional percentage on their
credit cards to cover losses, their taxes are increased to pay for law and
order and they are told that they will have to work beyond 65 because of a
shortfall in government funds.
THE END
This was amazing to see in Manuel Antonio National Park the grasshopper was sitting there minding his business but what the shot doesn’t show is that it was 4/5 inches long !!
A grasshopper on driftwood at Killard Point nature reserve.
This image was featured on the 7dayshop blog.