PhilC

Green cricket?

Green cricket?

Just leaving for a cricket match and found this fellow on the driver's door of my car. Don't remember ever seeing anything like it, but it is a bit c...
Read more

Just leaving for a cricket match and found this fellow on the driver's door of my car. Don't remember ever seeing anything like it, but it is a bit cricket-like. Will have to look it up.
Fortunately as I was off to take some cricket photos, I threw on the macro lens and started with this one. Managed to get a quick shot in before it decided that it didn't want to be a photo model. Not sure that the cricket club match report will include it though!
Read less

camera

Canon EOS 70D

settings

settings

Aperture f/5.6 ISO 250 Shutter 1/400 Focal Length 48/1

upload_date

upload_date

Jul, 2017

Views

598

Likes

+17

Awards

Peer Award

+5

Magnificent Capture

Top Choice

All Star

Top Ranks

Top 10 rank

Top 10 rank week 1

Top 30 rank

Top 20 rank week 1

Top 20 rank

Top 30 rank week 2

Top 20 rank

Top 30 rank week 1

Top 30 rank

Top 30 rank week 1

Top 20 rank

Top 30 rank week 1

Categories

See all

Same photographer See all

Adonis puts on a wonderful display every day at Hellabrunn Zoo, Munich, Germany. Fast-flying and tricky to photograph and so great for practice!

Garmisch Ski-jumping - one of the major World Cup competitions

Rome - the dome of St Peter's Basilica in the background.

Looking like a special moment for Pope John Paul II in the early morning in Jasna Gora, Czestochowa, Poland, at Christmas time 2015. Also a lovely win

Mandarin duck contemplating life
(Taken through the window)

An intriguing geometric effect. Vatican City

Vertical cliffs disappearing into the haze, seen from the top of the escarpment above the Grotto of St Mary Magdalene, Ste Baume, France. (It is quite

Dutch entry, ABN Amro 1, racing out of the Solent. This was the overall winner of this edition of the Volvo Ocean Race around the world, held every 3

A slight surprise when coming in from behind!
Kids being given a first-hand introduction to birds of prey, under close supervision. They absolutely lo

Something definitely seems to have caught his attention!

Blossom seen before the end of February in Provence, south of France

Members of the Munich cricket team having a hard training session. The captain directing operations on the left!
Enjoying a day out on Lake Chiemsee,

The office supervisor making sure things are done correctly on the computer screen.
Eugenie, our white fantailed dove, in one of her favourite posi

The spiral staircase between the church and the library, Melk Abbey, Austria.

A rather special Maserati for a regular road car - not seen too often on the streets!
At the Millionaire Fair when it was held in Munich a few years

Taken a little while after the previous Open Up image. Mother flamingo successfully holding out.

Our Pekinese Adam insisted on our having tea and cake with him beside the lake in the Englischer Garten in Munich to celebrate that a Pekinese is goin

Harris Hawk "Chili" in the Birds of Prey show at Poing Wildpark, near Munich

Discover more photos See all

Low and close by AndyHowePhotography

Looking Backwards! by MariaMercer

Rabbit on the run by sachinus2010

Giraffes by jmmaddox

Anatomy of a leopard kill. Witnessing this leopard (Olare, son of "Fig") dissecting head of this (dead) zebra was an incredibly visceral and by davidjharper

Swamp Deer from Kanha National Park India captured in the morning sunlight. I have used color grading to make it a moody and cinematic shot. by AbhinavS7

Topsy-Turvy by JulianGwilson

Isn't this the cutest?! I adore this sleepy little boy and his kitten friends by nadiacallahanphotography

A late morning shot at Cape Disappointment. The weather called for overcast, but the marine layer wore off and I was stuck shooting directly at the su by pacificrain

Male Box Turtle by BrittanyKnightFuller

Sunset Starfish by SteveZeinner

A Pgygmy Seahorse by MatW

Barn Funnel Weaver found in my back yard. Good excuse to run some extension tubes. by KS_Myatt

Just before sunset we came across a group of giraffe that we not bothered by our presence. As we waited for golden hour to arrive storm clouds rolled by Belva_Hayden

We lost Gunner earlier this year, just about a month after taking this photo. He was so amazing, a truly special one of a kind soul. He is greatly mis by Jackie_Kancir

Atlas. by DeeDee_Imagery

Horses running during the very early morning. by MichaelRyno

Bear fighting for the spot to find salmon by Hymakar

It’s your time to shine! ☀️

Share photos. Enter contests to win great prizes.
Earn coins, get amazing rewards. Join for free.

Or

Already a member? Log In

By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Service, and acknowledge you've read our Privacy Policy Notice.