Giant, man-eating grasshopper

castrol · Aug 2, 2006

Well maybe not man-eating, but it sure was man-pain-inflicting. I didn't realize
one of those things could actually draw blood by kicking you with those sharp,
point spiked legs. Surprised me really. Ouch.

Oh yeah... I wanted to also say that I am an idiot and I left the ISO at 400 because
I wasn't paying attention.

This is also my first use of the new Photoshop CS2 I just got. Was way different than
what I have been used to. Will be fun to figure out.

henryhurrry · Aug 3, 2006

Nice and sharp. Good colors

spako · Aug 3, 2006

amazing all the details you captured here! very sharp! I love the colours aswell!

mentos_007 · Aug 3, 2006

great

MG TF 135 · Aug 3, 2006

Fantastic, but no photo of the damage to yourself??!!

jonasr_jp · Aug 3, 2006

how big is the grasshopper in real life?

castrol · Aug 3, 2006

jonasr_jp said:
how big is the grasshopper in real life?

Thanks for the compliments y'all. I felt like an idiot getting the photo. A grown
man chasing a grasshopper around a live train yard, crawling around taking a
photo of a bug... Hehe. Bet it looked comical to quite a few people.

I should have tossed down a quarter for some scale. It was probably a good
4 to 5 inches in length. For all you Europeans out there... near 12.5 centimeters
long. This thing was huge.

No pictures of my bleeding finger. Sorry.

jonasr_jp · Aug 3, 2006

Haha yeah i bet we all have our own really awfully embarrasing moments.
Here in japan i get stared at even if i don't crawl around on the sidewalk searching for pikachu's, so imagine when i do.

whaa haven't seen such a huge grasshopper before, maybe i should go on a hunt myself, i hope i can find 100cm one, then i would take some really closeup pics and say that it was like 2cm big.

*i think the funniest thing with the pic is that it seems your head is reflected in the grasshoppers eye, looks like he's looking right at you.