Cricket!

[moonlettuce]

So, I was sitting on the front door step earlier (it was sunny and I sit there and play random stuff through YouTube and then sing along ::grin::) and saw what I thought was a leaf blowing across the path. And then it stopped and lifted a leg up. Turns out it was a cricket. Now, the thing is, I've never actually seen a cricket before (much to the amusement of everyone else, who were all "Really?!"), so I did what any normal person would do when confronted by a strange and wondrous creature... I grabbed the camera.



Only, I figured that was kind of a distance shot, and I'm still in love with the close-up function, so I got a little closer.













Everyone then mocked me for getting snap-happy. Well, paf I say... 74 pictures of a cricket is totally reasonable ::grin::

ETA: After a couple of comments and looking online, she's more likely a grasshopper than a cricket, as the nearest I could find was the long-winged conehead grasshopper :D

Comments

[xandutch.livejournal.com]

That is so very cool! What a huge monster! And amazing it kept sitting there while you took the 74 snaps. *g*

And again I am very awed by the quality of your zoom function and the sharpness of the shots.

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

::grin:: My zoom function is actually pretty shit, but sometimes I luck out with the close-up function. Also, out of the 74 there were a few green splodge ones ;D