Daily Theme - June 2024

[Chester PB]

Can anybody tell me what this creature is? I can see it's not an infant grasshopper, but that's the limit of my knowledge.

My wife found it on her finger after running her hand through some long grass in a meadow, and it only moved off when she put her hand back in the grass. The image isn't perfectly sharp, having been hastily taken with the Sigma 17-70 (at 70 mm) lens I had on my camera body at the time. This is a crop from the original image, and has not been resized.

[peterob]

I did some searching and the closest looking I could find is Megaloceroea recticornis.  

[Chester PB]

Jun 16, 2024 15:59:02 GMT peterob said:

I did some searching and the closest looking I could find is Megaloceroea recticornis.  

Thank you. My wife had searched online for 'small green insect UK' and got a bewildering list of hits from Google, but I suspected that somebody here would know far more about these things than her or I.

[peterob]

Jun 16, 2024 21:04:47 GMT Chester PB said:

Jun 16, 2024 15:59:02 GMT peterob said:

I did some searching and the closest looking I could find is Megaloceroea recticornis.  

Thank you. My wife had searched online for 'small green insect UK' and got a bewildering list of hits from Google, but I suspected that somebody here would know far more about these things than her or I.

Total ignorance on my part - I tried "long thin green beetle",  then "long thin green bug"  and was lucky with the second.  

[peterob]

A painted lady from last September


274A2049.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

[petrochemist]

A little late but I remembered a (fisheye) close up of my Dad, that would have been appropriate for Father's day
in the face by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

He's no longer with us so being late seems appropriate too.

[kate]

Still life

still life 7 by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

[zx9]

I don't really consciously do still life which involve studio like controlled conditions, for me it is more observational.


Sparkling Water IMG_4648editBW by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

Poppy IMG_0942editBW by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

[peterob]

It is staying still and it is alive and it is beautiful.   Closest that I'm going to get to still-life.

DSCF4555.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

[petrochemist]

I'm another who doesn't have much in the way of traditional still life shots. I think this one of a statuette in front of a false background might fit
Malay Dragon by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

[petrochemist]

Some of my more obscure lighting sessions might also involve still life, such as this UV induced fluorescence shot

UVIF + focus light small by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

[kate]

This was more an exercise in textures.
still life 2 by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

[El Sid]

Don't really do still life but this was a deliberate set up...


Scenery Machinery by Nigel Hayes, on Flickr

[kate]

still life fruit by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

[kate]

still life fruit 2 by Kate Ferris, on Flickr