Dead Cicada

[alfredo]

Used the Yashinon 50 and extension tubes. I shut down the lens to f8.

[trusty elf]

1. I like that a lot.

There's something alien and machine-like about it. They are weird and fascinating creatures with such a bizarre life cycle-spending years underground, emerging only to live for a few days. It's amazing how they can extract themselves from their skins when they molt.

We had a golden retriever that once swallowed a live cicada. You could hear the thing buzzing all the way down the dog's throat!

Nice shot!

[alfredo]

2. Thanks. The wings are incredible.

[Kind of Blue]

3. It's beautiful. I never liked them

at all. I just remember the season when they'd come from underground and I, along with just about everyone else, would do macabre dances trying to get them off or avoid crunching them underfoot. Ugh! I never knew how interesting they are nor how beautiful their wings are. Thanks, Alfredo. I don't think of them as horrid anymore :)

[alfredo]

4. They provide a feast for all creatures. Humans eat them too.

Anyway, if I hear Cicada, I am at ease.

Scale is reality. A closer look has altered your reality.

[Kind of Blue]

7. And I thank you

:)

[alfredo]

8. Every now and then a bit of altered realty is called for.

[GoneOffShore]

14. I have 5 or 6 cicada ornaments in my house - In Provence

They are considered good luck and are the sound of Provence.

Actually we have more than 5 or 6 because of the corkscrew and the table cloths.

[Fumesucker]

5. I have a Yashinon DX 50 f1.7..

I just ordered an M42 adapter for my DSLR so I'll be checking it out soon, from the looks of that image it's really sharp.

Beautiful job on the pic..

[alfredo]

6. It's not a bad lens at all. This one has a sizable lag in the focus

ring, but it has nice bokeh and it's fast. When doing Macro, I move the camera, not the focus ring.


BTW, I have an Industar 50 on the way.

[Solly Mack]

9. Bug!

Bug with eye lashes. Nice shot!

I've got a live one but nothng so close and detailed.

I love bugs.

[alfredo]

10. They usually stay still for photos. I spent a few frustrating

minutes tracking down a yellow swallowtail. Dead bugs don't fly away.

[Solly Mack]

11. Do you know what kind of fluttery thing this is?

I only ask because you mention the yellow swallowtail and I'm hoping you know this one too.

[alfredo]

12. Did it have black "eyes" on the top side of the wings?

If it did, it could be a Buckeye or some variation of the common buckeye. I don't know much about butterflies, but I know a few. Butterfly people are even crazier the birders.

[Solly Mack]

13. I think it did. Thanks!

[alfredo]

15. They must be confident that they taste awful, otherwise they wouldn't

Let you so close.

[Solly Mack]

16. Perhaps I didn't look hungry.

She was very obliging.

[alfredo]

17. The bugs that have developed a camouflage survival strategy

probably don't blow their cover until they are afraid it isn't working.

[Solly Mack]

18. I got a picture of her walking off the bloom very gracefully..then she flew away.

The thing is, it was almost as if she was in a bit of a huff. Miffed that I wouldn't go away.

[alfredo]

19. Nobody likes to be watched while they eat.

[Mz Pip]

20. Cute

I have a friend who finds dead bugs and scans them at high resolution then does really weird surreal collages using them.

These are neat!

[alfredo]

21. If you want to see weird insects look up Tree Hoppers.