Lubber Grasshopper (Brachystola magna??? is that right, Peter?) Photographed outside of Peter May's office in Deland, Florida.
-- Steve Kaufman (skphoto@xyz.net), May 28, 1999
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Wonderful!!! I love this shoot, excellent framing and the shadow on the leaf makes it even more interesting. Good job and keep the bug shoots coming!
-- Spencer Dohrman (sdohrman@fit.edu), May 28, 1999.
A great shot. Excellent pose as the grasshopper looms up from behind the plant. The soft complementary background serves very well to silhouette the sharply focussed critter. Excellent!
-- Garry Schaefer (schaefer@pangea.ca), May 29, 1999.
Wow. almost seems like a computer animated creation (a Bug's life). The pose could not be better.
-- darron young (darron@qi.ucsb.edu), May 29, 1999.
Steve,The first shot you post from your Florida trip is a GRASSHOPPER??!!! All of those gorgeous snakes and this is what we get? What were you thinking? It is a very cool (and different) take on these impressive orthops, though. Was fill flash used? This is Romalea microptera, by the way. Now let's see some snakes.
Peter
-- Peter May (peter.may@stetson.edu), May 30, 1999.
Steve, I live in Florida and the Lubber Grasshopppers are all over. Not good for the gardens and crops, but interesting photographic subjects. They are either black&red or tan. I have a few pictures of them myself and in two of them they are peering around something as your subject is. Sometimes I feel I'm playing peek-a-boo with them. In any case this is a very nice picture, though a little fill flash might have given more details of the mandibles and underside. Donna
-- Donna Bollenbach (cassidy@icubed.net), May 30, 1999.
What a nice use of the space! Would make a nice cover of a magazine. Great composition. I wish I could do that. I also wish I could hang with Peter May, the snake guy, for a while! 200mm micro?
-- Pete Dickson (dickson.pn@pg.com), June 02, 1999.
The grasshopper was shot on Velvia using a tripod-mounted 200 Macro. It was photographed in harsh mid-morning light without fill flash. I did spend some time with several grasshoppers trying to get one that would sit still on the edge of a leaf for me. Exposure & camera settings unrecorded.
-- Steve Kaufman (skphoto@xyz.net), June 02, 1999.
You must have been a portrait photographer in another life. Great job of giving this bug personality!
-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), June 03, 1999.
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