Monday, August 08, 2005

Two-Striped Grasshopper frontal view

Two-Striped Grasshopper frontal view
Latin name: Melanoplus bivittatus

Well, I don't get too excited about grasshoppers, but Janneke suggested I photograph one she'd caught and was keeping in her bug collection cage. She said that after release it would stick around for a while. True enough, when we placed it on a large hunk of stone it stuck around long enough to take about a dozen photos. They turned out ver well indeed. I used a polarizing filter to cut down on glare from the rock and reflection from the grasshopper.