hold it…hold it

November 21, 2022

hold it…hold it

I don't normally have the best of luck when it comes to photographing insects. I'll usually observe them sitting motionless for a few minutes before getting my camera. Then, just as I'm focussed and composed the little bast.. I mean creature will leap off, never to be seen again.

So, when I popped out to my garage the other evening and spotted this beautiful grasshopper on my back gate, I instinctively went back inside to fetch my camera but, in all reality expected the little bast… I mean creature to have hopped away.

I mean, that's what they do isn't it - your grasshopper? The clue is in its name.

Anyway, when I returned he* was still there. I thought for a moment that I must have painted the gate and he was stuck there! But no, I haven't painted it in years. So, he was just posing for me! And he continued to do so for some time while I snapped away.

The image I've chosen is one where the setting sun was illuminating him beautifully, and I really like the contrast between his luminous green body and the black of my wrought-iron gate.