200mm macro, velvia

-- Les Saucier (saucier@charter.net), February 08, 2000

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I love it! Crisp colors, great behavior portrait. Very nice....

-- Mark Erickson (maericks@netcom.com), February 09, 2000.

Cute! I'm surprised that the bug stands out from the background given that they are similar color.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), February 09, 2000.

Very nice. The photo has a lot of personality which makes it unique.

-- Lanier Benkard (lanierb@leland.stanford.edu), February 09, 2000.

Really nice. This has humor, excellent technique and good composition. I especially like the way everything in the frame is green, yet the mantid still stands out.

-- Mark Castiglia (markus777@earthlink.net), February 09, 2000.

think a red bird would help?

-- Mark Paul (gpaul48@bellsouth.net), February 14, 2000.

Great shot, but might improve with cropping: from the right so that the leaf's left-hand edge disappears into the top of the frame just to the left of the top right corner, from the bottom so that the tip of the abdomen would be just visible if it hadn't already been cropped off, and from the left so that the antenna stops just short of the left-hand edge of the frame. YMMV, but that's the version I like best. Again, great photo.

-- Bill Hooker (cwh@earthling.net), July 28, 2000.