Thanks for the encouraging words. The mantis picture was taken at Waukegan Beach Park near where I work. I was actually out on a cement spit that went out into the lake (Lake Michigan) and was climbing up onto a raised portion of the spit to take a picture from up higher. When I got to the top of the ladder, that thing was staring me in the face. After the initial shock and mild terror, I realized what a great picture opportunity it was and so I held the camera out as close as I dared and took a couple of shots. The one you see here was the best of the two and I used Microsoft Picture It! to touch it up a little bit and crop it down. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
Strangely, the other day I was in the parking lot of another park and there was another huge mantis, which I took some shots of. Unfortunately the people at Walgreens didn't put them on the disk they made from my negatives for that roll of film so I'll have to go back over and ask them to do that.
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Great pictures! I especially love the mantis shot. I'm going to show this to the boys tomorrow if I can get time.
Thanks for the encouraging words. The mantis picture was taken at Waukegan Beach Park near where I work. I was actually out on a cement spit that went out into the lake (Lake Michigan) and was climbing up onto a raised portion of the spit to take a picture from up higher. When I got to the top of the ladder, that thing was staring me in the face. After the initial shock and mild terror, I realized what a great picture opportunity it was and so I held the camera out as close as I dared and took a couple of shots. The one you see here was the best of the two and I used Microsoft Picture It! to touch it up a little bit and crop it down. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
Strangely, the other day I was in the parking lot of another park and there was another huge mantis, which I took some shots of. Unfortunately the people at Walgreens didn't put them on the disk they made from my negatives for that roll of film so I'll have to go back over and ask them to do that.
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