When I opened the door to unload the car, I saw a grasshopper and just hoped he would be still until I could get my camera out. Then I had to change lens because I had my zoom lens on. While I was putting on another lens, he hopped up on part of the door frame. He sat through a few shots with that lens, then I changed to my 50 mm lens and he waited for that also. When I finished and was wondering how I could get him out so that he 1) would not get inside the car or 2) would not get squished in the door, he hopped down on the sidewalk. I think he wanted to get his photo taken! What a poser! This shot was taken with my 18-55 mm lens.
Thank you for viewing and commenting, I appreciate it!
Addition:
Someone asked what the brown thing is behind him (just past his leg), those are his wings. If you can view really large, you can see that it has some different colorations/hues and it looks like little boxes (squares, rectangles) on them. Part of the wings are green.
I went to comment on what you said on my blue jay picture. I'm on my iPad and my fat thumb hit delete instead of reply! :( Thank you for your comment! We have a lot more mockingbirds than we do blue jays, too.
@maggiemae That is his folded up wings. Part of them are green and then they have the brown look. They really look good viewed large, as you can see the little "squares and rectangles" and the various colors. It's eyes have spots on them or what looks like spots. On my computer, I can view it by the pixel size or the best printed size.
@bankmann Thank you! I used the macro / flower setting on automatic and also took shots with it manually. This one was probably auto, as several shots were not clear and I am thinking those were the manual ones.
@gerry Thanks! Yes, quite familiar with Kung Fu with David Carradine. In fact, I tried to come up with a title that would work with that show, but just couldn't.
@clmiller Thank you and thank you for the fav! I will go back and re-comment on your bluejay. I have deleted accidentally myself, just the other day on someone else's pic. I felt so bad about it, I did re-comment on the pic. Sometimes I have to delete and re-comment because my fingers get dyslexic!
Beautiful capture, Linda ....love the detail and the colors! Yes, he's quite the handsome little guy and must have loved being your model. Lucky you. :)
@m9f9l Thanks! Why yes, I did. In fact, I took shots of him from head-on, and all kinds of positions. Then I rotated them around and I liked this one the best. I can not tell you why, I just liked it the best. I asked for my husbands input and for him it was between this shot and the one taken head-on.
