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Almonds also bloomed this year.
sd Quattro H with MACRO 150/2.8 ISO100 f/2.8 1/1250sec NR: C0.00/L0.00
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Tettigonia viridissima, the Great Green Bush-Cricket, (kindly indentified by Mieneke , is a large species of katydid or cricket belonging to the family Tettigoniidae, subfamily Tettigoniinae. This species can be encountered from Europe to Mongolia, especially in meadows, grasslands, prairies and occasionally in gardens.
The adult males grow up to 28–36 millimetres (1.1–1.4 in) long, while females reach 32–42 millimetres (1.3–1.7 in). This insect is most often completely green (but there are specimens completely yellowish or with yellow legs), excluding a rust-colored band on top of the body. The organ of the stridulation of the males is generally brown. Tettigonia viridissima is distinguished by its very long and thin antennae, which can sometimes reach up to three times the length of the body, thus differentiating them from grasshoppers, which always carry short antennae. It could be confused with Tettigonia cantans, whose wings are a centimeter shorter than the ovipositor, or Tettigonia caudata whose hind femurs bear conspicuous black spines. The morphology of both sexes is very similar, but the female has an egg-laying organ (ovipositor) that can reach a length of 23–32 millimetres (0.91–1.26 in). It reaches the end of the elytra and is slightly curved downward. The larvae are green and as the imago show on their back a thin brown longitudinal stripe. The ovipositor can be seen from the fifth stage; the wings appear in both genders from the sixth stage. Tettigonia viridissima is carnivorous and arboreal. Its diet is mostly composed of flies, caterpillars and larvae. Unlike many grasshoppers, it is essentially active in day and night, as testified by its endless crepuscular and nocturnal singing. A very large bush-cricket, the Great Green Bush-cricket certainly lives up to its name! It lives in trees and on grassland dotted with patches of scrub, eating vegetation and other insects. Great Green Bush-crickets prefer light, dry soils into which the females can lay their eggs using their long, down-curved ovipositors. The males display to females by producing a very loud, long 'song' by rubbing their forewings together. They sound like a sewing machine, going continuously for long periods, but their expert camouflage still makes them hard spot. The Nymph, as in picture, does not have wings.
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I saw this leaf held up by the wind and backlit by the sun. The wind blew it over so I set it back up to take the picture:) Loving my new Sigma 150mm macro lens!
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There are still remnants of snow around after the ~2ft of snow we got back in Dec. I was trying to capture the way the snow has melted and frozen and blown over the weeks. Not sure this does it justice.
I'm sorry I haven't been very active the last week or so. Things have been really busy. Hopefully, it will settle down in the next week or so.
Almonds also bloomed this year.
sd Quattro H with MACRO 150/2.8 ISO100 f/2.8 1/4000sec NR: C0.00/L0.00
Explore: Sept 19th 2010
Autumn is officially here. Kenosha Pass was one of the earlier bloomers, so I headed there to get some much needed practice shooting fall colors. Next weekend I am camping in Crested Butte for a couple of days, so hopefully I will get some great images from there. I love just walking into the Aspens, with the sounds of leaves and wood crunching under foot, and nothing but the beauty of falling leaves and subtle breeze around you.
Canon EOS 5D mark II - Sigma 150mm macro
I think I will always be fascinated by these! When I look at these up close like this and see the marble like patterns swirling around inside the columns and drops of water, it reminds me of how I use to look at clouds before I became a pilot and how I see them now. You know the clouds I am talking about... The soft, puffy clouds that look like cotton balls floating in the sky. The ones everyone loves to lie back and watch as they make shapes of faces and all sorts of animals and how they look so peaceful as they slowly move across the sky on a summer afternoon. I always thought that flying into them would be like diving into a huge pool full of cotton! That is, until I flew into one for the first time! At first it was sort of scary... I could see this wall of white coming at me and over a hundred miles per hour and even though I knew it wasn't solid, it sure did LOOK like it was! I cringed as I hit it and THEN I found out just how rough and violent those "soft puffy" clouds really are inside! I look at these water drop collisions think of them the same way now. Even though it is on a VERY small scale, it is hard for me not to think about the currents and forces that must be thrashing about inside them! Very cool to think about really. :-)
Okay... I have been working on a new little geeky project for the past few days. Not anything related to photography but cool none the less. ;-) Something I have been wanting to build since the first time I saw one and another project related to my never ending quest to build a time machine! ;-) Stay tuned!
El último instante de esta mosca antes de ser envuelta en las redes y quedar en la despensa de esta araña para la próxima comida…
L’últim instant d’aquesta mosca abans de ser embolicada en les xarxes i quedar en el rebost d’aquesta aranya per al pròxim menjar…
The final moment of this fly before being wrapped in webs and stored in the pantry of this spider for the next meal…
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