Mantis Portraits

GOLDENORFE

A male giant shield mantis, posed for portraits,
hope you like them
phil

canon400d

GOLDENORFE wrote:

A male giant shield mantis, posed for portraits,
hope you like them
phil

Great shots Phil at what mag did you take them with the MPE? I have just received a Hakuba LH-1 ball head. Hopefully I will get into action again.
Regards
Bob

Lord Vetinari

Wonderful portraits Phil esp like the angle/pose of #3
Brian V.

Mark Edell

very cool I love #3

mehampson

These are fantastic. #3 is my favorite of them too -- I love the sense of calm, purposeful activity it has -- but I think #2 would be if the background color had been the same green as the others.

kdog

They look like a space alien!

Great shots!

-joel

Skippy

GOLDENORFE wrote:

A male giant shield mantis, posed for portraits,
hope you like them
phil

Who's a pretty boy ?

They are such posers aren't they.

I like all of them Phil, great series, thanks for sharing

.... Skippy
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GOLDENORFE

thanks for comments everyone.
x2 mag Bob, they are big mantids:D

phil
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