A cricket in the hand is worth two...

[LordV]

in the bush cricket.
Brian V.

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[bandit 1]

Hiya Brian,

Excellent shots, lovely rich colours, love the finger nail shot ;):lol: but #4 is my favorite.

Cheers for now
Mark

[Monkeyman.R]

Awesome!

Great detail in every shot. :D

[alliec]

Lovley shots Brian. Love the second one. Were these stacked? Havent seen any of these recently..well ever since i purchased the MPE-65:D

Alistair.

[Attic]

#4 the one that I like best out of these. Lovely colour.

[Bill Pham]

yours cricket are way different from ours over here. love the last one guess i like to see the whole critter. just started to realized that over the last few weeks.

Bill

[dreamline]

Great detail Brian.

I like #4. Looks like he's losing the fight against gravity... :)

[LordV]

Thanks for the comments everyone- much appreciated :)

Alistair #1 & #2 have a little bit of focus stacking

Bill always nice to get a whole /environmental shot before moving in for closeups

Bernie- That's where the cricket landed after jumping off my finger- she did manage to clamber up.

Brian V.

[4g63photo]

Very nice. The second one could be a cricket portrait.

[LindaB]

Great pics - #2 and 4 are for me. These are another great subject to photograph, they always have that grumpy look on their faces lol

Linda

[racketman]

was she in your garden, I haven't seen them in gardens.

[eccles]

@Bill, our bush crickets are pretty much the same as your katydids.
Great shots Brian, except for the dirty fingernail. ;)

[terraform]

Great! Like #2 and #4.

Cheers.

[LordV]

Thanks again for the comments.
RM- get quite a few of them in my garden - two different species I think.
Linda- you are right- do seem to be one of the bugs with a bit of character
eccles- sorry about the dirty nails- had been doing some gardening when I spotted her :)

Brian V.