All of these pictures are ones I obviously took over the past year. I don't like to take pictures of things that move, but I've started to leave that comfort zone. All of these are pictures that I took...of bugs! They're not in any particular order though. Now, think about something that I explained in the last post... The photographers position. Think about how close I were to these bugs! Lucky me, they didn't move as I got closer. But... I'm always saying... keep snapping... meaning, keep clicking because you may miss the shot and you can always go back and delete the extra pictures. So probably for each bug, I took perhaps 15-20, and that was until they moved away.
This is a beetle, a False Potato Beetle in specific. It's named this because it's commonly mistaken for the Colorado Potato Beetle. They feed on husk ground cherry tomatoes and weeds, which makes sense for why I saw them because we are growing tomatoes. What you see in this picture is actually a fake. What I mean by this is... the white floor the bug is on is actually a wall. The brown floorboard on the side is actually the floor.
This isa Katydid (a leaf bug). I was so close to stepping on it, it was scary. It's a wicked looking bug because it resembles a leaf so much. It even has the veins running through like leaves, which is why I didn't recognize this as a bug at first. Now recognize the detail of the entire picture in general. You can see the details of the bug as well as the background. Did you know there are pink leaf bugs too?!? (It's a natural genetic mutation.)
This is a praying mantis. Now a funny story behind this picture. Right behind these rocks are some jalapeno plants we grow. So I was walking on top of the row of rocks, checking out all the vegetables, just like a kid would. Of course I was looking where I was going just to make sure I wouldn't fall, but I was barely paying attention to what was there. So I was walking, walking, walking, then stopped to check out a plant. I was crouched down, observing the jalapenos. And that was when I looked to my right and saw this creature. I did jump a bit, but mainly I was creeped out because I wasn't wearing shoes. What if I stepped on it? I promise you, it was scary because it just looks like grass. These camouflage bugs are pretty creepy.
This was just some honey bee strolling through our yard. I was actually really surprised about how close I was to take the picture, and how it didn't move once I was so close.
This is some grasshopper...not sure what type exactly. I really like this picture because of the detail visible. You can also see the depth of feild (DOF), which places the grasshopper in a perspective. The way you can tell depth of field is by noticing that the camera is focused only on one subject. So here the floor closest and farthest to the camera is blurred. Only the area around the grasshopper is well in focus, which is basically depth of field.
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