Inspiring Photo: Shy Hopper #4609931

Shy Hopper

Uploaded: September 10, 2007

Description

Found this grasshopper hopping around in the yard. They are everywhere out here. Some are green, some are brown.
I held him in my hand for quite sometime before he hopped to this flowering weed.
Comment's welcome and have a GREAT DAY!
9/7/07 2:09:51, 1/90 sec, 13.40 aperture, 33.00mm, ISO 80, Daylight
EFP 9/1107

Comments

Jeana Clark September 10, 2007

Morning Peaches!!! :o)
Cool Capture!! Love the colors! Excellent details, awesome clarity, and super composition!!! WELL CAPTURED sweetie!!!
Hope your day is GREAT!!!

~Jeana~ #734899

Bob D. Hall September 10, 2007

This looks like a winner to me!!!! Great job!!! #4771867

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 10, 2007

Morning Jeana. Thanks so very much. Hope you have a wonderful day! I am going bck to bed ahahahahahaa #4771870

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 10, 2007

WOW, Bob, thank you so very much! You just put a BIG smile on my face. Thank you so very much!!! Have a GREAT day! #4771889

Z. Banu September 10, 2007

WOW!!AWESOME CAPTURE VERY BEAUTIFUL HOPPER!LIKE THE COMPOSITION,DETAILS,COLORS,CLARITY!NANCY #4771931

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 10, 2007

Morning to you Zaanat. Thank you so very much, really appriciate your wonderful comment. Have a SUPER DAY! #4771956

Kimi A. Phillips September 10, 2007

Lovely capture, Peaches! I love the purple highlights! #4772014

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 10, 2007

Thank you so very much Kimi, You have a wonderful day! #4772024

Jeff Robinson September 10, 2007

Nice close-up capture Peaches! Jeff #4772371

Brenda c. McFarland September 10, 2007

Great Capture Peaches! I love that purple eye! #4772467

Susan Weisensel September 10, 2007

Great capture Peachy, love the color and detail of your hopper. Put them wadders back on and go see what more you can find for us. #4772520

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 10, 2007

Tank you so very much Jeff, I really do appriciate you stopping and giving me your words of encouragement.

Brenda, thanks very much girfriend. He was so cute, for a grasshopper anyway, I feel like I kinda bonded with him lol.

Susan, thanks so very much, I really appriciate it. YES, I am sure the wader's will be on again to find some more interesting thing's.
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Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 10, 2007

Lost in cyberspace...

Samantha (Sam ) Britt

Great detail & color, Peaches. Wonderful macro.
9/10/2007 6:52:12 AM

Nancy Kay Harker

Morning Sam, Thanks so very much, have a wonderful day!
9/10/2007 6:55:02 AM

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Heather September 10, 2007

Gorgeous Work Nancy,This looks magical!! :)

P.S The Effects are Perfect.. #4773736

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 10, 2007

Thanks so very much Heather, appriciate it! #4773841

Lynn Haack September 10, 2007

Peaches...the detail is amazing! Did you use a tripod? Excellent....Lynn #4773896

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 10, 2007

Thanks so very much Lynn, nope, no tripod. Grasshoppers are hard to get with the just the camera let alone trying to do it wiith a tripod lol. I had fun chasing him around from plant to plant though. #4773934

Tammy Espino September 10, 2007

OMG ewwwwwwwwwww YOU touched it?!! No touching bugs for this city girl. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW ( stomp) ...but, let me say excellent picture and love the purple highlights~ Oh oh and congrads on your shadow EP!! Your running out of room for just 30 photo's. The love your work as do I :) #4774026

Dianna Hauf September 10, 2007

We are on the same wave length today!!! LOL! Too funny! LIKE your capture, composition and colors here too, Peaches! ;) My grasshopper wasn't that hard to get. HE thought he was 'hiding' from me!! ;) Great details too! #4774315

Patrick Rouzes September 10, 2007

Exceptional macro here, Dianna!!! The detail, colors & focus are all excellent my friend!!! I am picturing you running around in your garden from plant to plant like some tribal dance. Did you have music in the background? #4774319

Patrick Rouzes September 10, 2007

Please forgive me ,Peaches- I was looking at Dianna' name just above & somehow typed it here. Sorry !!!
Dianna would be proud though,haha. #4774362

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 10, 2007

TAMMY, NO stomping on the grasshoppers, they are friendly. Course their legs feel a little weird rububg when you catch them. Probably one of the only insects I don't mind besides butterflys lol.
Thanks so very much and have a great night!

Hey Dianna, had to check your gallery again, I hadn't been there this afternoon, having server problem's, so being on is when it allows me too.
YES, must be a grasshopper day lol, I just love there look they give us, just to funny. I really enjoyed this one.
Thanks so very much and will head over to comment on your in a bit. Have a nice night! Hope all is well with you and Sara.

PATRICK, I FORGIVE YOU lol...I don't have a garden, just fields and a yard. They were everywhere in the field yesterday, was chasing them for more photo's lol. Had a lot of fun, no music though.
Thanks for the encouraging words, and have a super night!
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Colleen Farrell September 10, 2007

Awesome macro, Peaches! The color and detail are fabulous. You are much braver than I am--these guys give me the willies. I think it's because they hop! lol #4775276

frank w. degenhardt September 10, 2007

Sorry I'm late my friend. Got caught up in all the dedications and had to take a break.
The wait was worth it. This one made it into the top spot of my 10 best photos you have done. Stunning macro, super explosive color, clarity crystal sharp.
Just a fantastic work of art. You get my VDNP award for this.
Outstanding my friend #4775349

frank w. degenhardt September 10, 2007

LMAO at Tammy. I've been to Vegas and believe me there are things there alot worse to touch than a grasshopper #4775397

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 10, 2007

LMAO Colleen, rabbits hop too ahahahaa
Grasshoppers I think are cute in their own little way. NOTHING like a spider, now those give me the willies.
Thanks so very much, your comment's are ALWAYS appriciated. Have a nice tomorrow, well now today LOL

Frank, I was starting to think you forgot about me lol.
OK, now you have added a v in front of the DNP, is that a NEW award lmao?
Thanks so very much buddy, so glad you like it and thanks for you VDNP award, means a lot! have a nice night and a great day tommorrow! HUGS! #4775414

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 10, 2007

OOOPS, I am NOT even going to ask what it that is worse than touching a grasshopper, all I know is spiders ahahahahaa, maybe a few other critters. #4775417

Roxanne M. Bubar September 11, 2007

WOW outstanding. #4778097

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 11, 2007

Thankk you so very much Roxanne, I really appriciate it! #4778259

Tammy Espino September 11, 2007

Hmm thinking scorpions, black widows, rattlesnakes, but still ((stomp)) No bugs!! They hop, they can hop on your face!!!!! Lady bugs are ok..laffing, got any lady bugs? #4778527

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 11, 2007

LOL, Well, we don't have scorpion's, black widows, and rattlesnakes by me, have seen timber rattlers though, and YES snakes URGH ! but they are NOT a insect ahahahahaaa.
YES I do have some lady bugs, havn't posted them yet! Maybe to come. Have a wonderful day g/f! #4778552

Tammy Espino September 11, 2007

You have a wonderful day too . Waiting on butterfly hands along with the lady bugs now ..(tapping fingers till I see them ) I still haven't read those books I bought..hahahah #4778578

Bob D. Hall September 11, 2007

Told you it was a winner!!!!
Congrats on your EFP!!! #4778983

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 11, 2007

THANK YOU BOB! #4778996

Jennifer L. Alder September 11, 2007

OH WOW, Girl!!!!!!!
THIS IS O U T S T A N D I N G
WTG
:) #4779144

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 11, 2007

Jennifer, thank you SO VERY MUCH, really appriciate all the kind words of encouragement and smiles you bring me! #4779150

Carol Teal September 15, 2007

Yuck, you held him! I hate those things! And to think I used to be a tomboy when little and catch all kinds of bugs, including BEES! Great capture Peaches! I thought he looked strange at first but then noticed the green on him was a leaf! Hey, I just woke up so I must not be seeing well! #4793645

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 15, 2007

LOL Carol, yup, more than one this year. They don't bother me.
Thanks so very much and have a GREAT DAY! #4794509

Steven E. Ray September 17, 2007

I'm sure the magenta enhancements helped this one win a button :) Nice effect, almost metallic in nature... ha, in nature, what a pun. Really cool eye candy Nancy! #4805426

Nancy (Peaches) Harker September 17, 2007

LOL, I never did any effects on this.....I did gassains blur on the background and auto'd the color again and thats what it did.
Thanks so very much Steven, really appriciate it. #4805440

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