On 06/15/2011 08:46 PM, Mark Cassino wrote:
That is a very cool shot - I love how it is snapping up the dew drop. My guess
on the ID owuld be either a longhorn grasshopper or katydid, or nymph of one or
the other...
Sorry about your folks.
MCC
Thank you, Mark. It's one of my favorite shots I've taken to date. I
did some looking around on Google Images to see what I could find
yesterday, and I'm inclined to go with your call as the longhorn
grasshopper. The katydids I saw didn't quite have antennae that long.
It was interesting watching the little guy as I was shooting. When I
saw him reach down for the water droplet, I was SURE I missed it, and
was really excited when I got in and loaded it onto the computer. I was
utterly convinced that I'd somehow blown the shot, and almost dreaded
looking.
I kept watching him after I hit the shutter, and it was so cool to watch
him -- he used the water droplet to rinse off his antennae (or maybe
that's a way of hydrating?).
Thanks for the kind thoughts on my parents and the input on the photo.
I'm anxious to see how it'll be received in the photo competition.
-- Walt
----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Gilbert"<ldott...@gmail.com>
To:<PDML@pdml.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 11:33 AM
Subject: PESO: Grab a Drop
Hi all,
Stepping briefly back out of obscurity to share a photo I took this morning.
Sorry I haven't been around to participate. Ever since I got home from my visit
to California with Larry and John, my mother's health has taken a turn for the
worse. She's currently in hospice care, and it's fallen to me to look after
her. She's in fairly grave condition - to the point where she's taking morphine
in both pill and liquid form, and I have to stay on top of that. And, as if
that weren't enough, my father has suddenly taken ill with heart problems --
both of them spent about ten days in the hospital at the same time recently.
So, essentially, my photography is limited to what I can find in my yard.
A couple of weeks ago, I order a reversing ring and have been tinkering around
with my K 50/1.4. So far, this is the best shot I've managed to get with it.
Basically, it's shot with my K-x using the pop-up flash and a Fuji film canister
with some wax paper lining the inside as a diffuser, at 400 ISO for 1/180 of
second. (It's a grasshopper-like insect, in case anyone is squeamish about
those).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walt_gilbert/5832616817/
(Lighbox) http://is.gd/Q6u4ys
I haven't done a great deal of editing to it -- bumped up the highlights using
curves in The GIMP and resized to make a faster upload. I just wanted to show
it off because I was really happy with the way it turned out. I wish I could
participate in the forum, or even seriously pursue photography at all right now,
but it's just tough to get serious with it in my current situation. With any
luck, though, hospice will help to get my mother a little more stabilized and
I'll be able to get out and trudge around with the camera a bit more.
Anyway -- that's the news from Kentucky. I write and take photos when I can,
and figured I ought to at least touch base with everyone to let you all know I'm
still alive and check in on the list from time to time, whenever the opportunity
presents itself.
-- Walt
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