August 24, 2008

• Visitors…and fun with digital macro

  So, this is my idea of some fun with my macro settings. Every once in a while, we get some not-so-strange to the suburbs visitors on our window screen. Let me tell you, I’m very glad to have the window screens in our place. Just 4 miles from the George Washington Bridge, you wouldn’t think that we lived with this many insects, but you never know.

  
  I woke up one crisp, cool, sunny morning and opened the living room window
  to be greeted by this guy. The leg-span stretched about 3 inches wide.

  
  I caught him hanging out in this same spot for several days in a row.

  
  Last week, I came home and opened the small bedroom window to vent the room
  as the afternoon breezes were so comfortable. Waiting for me on the screen was this mantis.
  As I started photographing him, he turned around and stared at me.

  
  It’s body stretched about 6 inches, not counting the legs.

  
  He’s still staring at me.

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