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 ----- 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 > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
