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Meadow Grasshopper Feeding
e6filmuser
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This is a female (ovipositor small in this species) Meadow Grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus.
This is the same individual as in the images I recently posted. Here I reveal how I got them.
These grasshoppers do not like being stalked. It is an achievement to get even a single good image. When I saw this one through my viewfinder I saw the chance to get a few shots. This is because, very unusually, it was feeding. It was, very slowly, pushing a very long, thin grass stem into its mouth. Afraid of disturbing it, I stayed in more or less the same position for these shots. Afterwards, I was able to move around more for the images previously uploaded.
EM-1 (manual mode), Kiron 105, f16, twin TTL RC flash, hand-held.
Harold
This is the same individual as in the images I recently posted. Here I reveal how I got them.
These grasshoppers do not like being stalked. It is an achievement to get even a single good image. When I saw this one through my viewfinder I saw the chance to get a few shots. This is because, very unusually, it was feeding. It was, very slowly, pushing a very long, thin grass stem into its mouth. Afraid of disturbing it, I stayed in more or less the same position for these shots. Afterwards, I was able to move around more for the images previously uploaded.
EM-1 (manual mode), Kiron 105, f16, twin TTL RC flash, hand-held.
Harold
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Paul.
Link to my personal website: http://www.pauliddon.co.uk
Thanks, Paul.
Harold
Brian v.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/
http://www.lordv.smugmug.com/
Thanks, Brian.
Harold