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Grasshopper Escape Hungry Fawn

Grasshopper Escape Hungry Fawn
Grasshopper Escape Hungry Fawn

Grasshopper Escape Hungry Fawn

Quality Game Trail Cameras can capture very candid scenes. Each and every image I’ve ever posted from a game trail camera took me a relatively long time to fix problems with them. They have inherent issues built into every one of the .jpg file (image) they put out. But they are, to a one, capable of capturing situations that no one would ever see without those cameras out in the bush. Such as the wonderful result here lol.

I can imagine 100 hillariouis scenarios for this image but I’m thinking that grasshopper was escaping that lizard tongue. Now I’ve seen a LOT of deer tongues over the years. Done some hunting, a little photography, I’ve never seen one quite that much of a flapper before. This is a month and a half old fawn at this capture.

Running a network of 29 cameras (currently) is a matter of keeping manufacturers of AA batteries financially solvent. Cameras I set in the spring are just now starting to get low on power. Now where did I leave that Browning Camera at?. I run into them as I’m back on the ranch. Occasionally I find one I set the previous year and it’s battery dead. Oh the treasures it could contain. The only control you have over those automatic cameras are usually 3 levels of sensitivity to trigger, and 3 levels of flash (close, medium and far). Placing them in the right spot is the game though.

The hardest thing to match colorwise in any Wyotana photography is Sage Brush. Try it. It’s tough to get right .. 📷

Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming / Montana borderlands (Wyotana)

Title: Grasshopper Escape Hungry Fawn

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Little Bastards Jumping About

Little Bastards Jumping About
Little Bastards Jumping About

Little Bastards Jumping About

This fellow makes up in numbers what they lack in individuality. They all to a one are ravenous. I have seen more “grasshoppers” this year than any other in the last 2 decades. I’m thinking back that I’ve never seen them as thick as they are this year. Having said that, I’ve seen photos of some of the clouds of Locusts eating an 80 acre farm in 15 minutes and some of these swarms are the size of big cities. Asia, India, Saudi, Africa are all having MAJOR issues at the moment. Major famines in those regions may be expected. I’ve heard the US is expecting a major corn crop… We might feed a majority of the planet if we do. Conditions are tough out there world wide.

I still have a yard, and even some green grass. Mostly all the local ranchers are done haying this year with the dryness. It’s not worth the fuel to swath and bale up the sparse grass. I’m not versed on grasshopper biology other than the fundamentals. Isn’t it funny how all of us paid attention to how but not why during those complex high school biology lectures. My undergraduate is a double major “Geobiology”. I could tell you something about fossilization of grasshoppers but not so much their life cycle.

I could google it but then I’d deny you from the same pleasure. Plus you’d get way more info than my distilled version. Google makes us all seem like our IQ’s are 20 points higher than they are. Still knowing how to search then what to do with the information you gather is the game. ….

Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana)

Title: Little Bastards Jumping About

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Thistle Globe Sun Filter

Thistle Globe Sun Filter
Thistle Globe Sun Filter

Thistle Globe Sun Filter

I often find myself out in the middle of nowhere in the grass during sunset. Humm I wonder what’s around for filter material? 🤔🤔 Also discovered is the tendency toward you actually being where you are. A limiting factor certainly lolol. Photography is both planned AND accidental when it occurs. Rule one of getting a photograph:

RULE 1: Have a camera with you as much as possible. I don’t even like to go outside without one when I’m going to do ranch chores in the mud in the rain.☑️

I have a very limited amount of time to shoot sunsets. Depending on the sky, I choose what camera/lens combination I’m going to grab to “work” the scene unfolding in front of my eyes. A Clear Sky Sunset is an indication ahead of time to set up a “Close / Far perspective image. Here I was using the headlights of my Jeep (very bright) to illuminate this side of the thistle plant. The Thistle globe of seeds was my sun filter to reduce / minimize the difference in lighting between the front with the bright unbridled sunlight behind.

Anybody notice the Photobomber in this image? You have to look past the obvious to see the little spoiler lolol. Interestingly enough I didn’t see it until I got the image up on the big screen to finish the image. So I suggest zooming in on this capture lolol. 👀📸

Photographic Musings:

You need a HIGH f-stop number for the deep focus plus it’s reduction of light. ISO 100 (low ISO for bright light camera sensitivity), and use shutter speed to adjust for what ever lighting scenario/exposure levels you wish.

Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana)

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Katydid or Maybe She Didn’t?

Katydid or Maybe She Didn't?
Katydid or Maybe She Didn't?

A Katydid or maybe she didn’t that is the question? This is not actually a grasshopper but a type of cricket known as the “Bush Cricket”. They are not uncommon this time of year but not nearly as common as a “regular” grasshopper.
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.

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Ultra-Violet Grasshopper

Ultra-Violet Grasshopper
Ultra-Violet Grasshopper

I took out a very strong UV inpection light I had, illuminated this Grasshopper in Ultra Violet. It was dark but for ambient lighting and the green background (normal daylight looking) is actually the 10 second time lapse it took to get this….. Everyone had to be still for that long….

Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands.

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A Few Too Many Grasshoppers

A Few Too Many Grasshoppers
A Few Too Many Grasshoppers

A few too many grasshoppers???? 

You might not like spiders but you have to appreciate catching and bagging your lunch for the next week in about 30 seconds… This is the moment of the “bite” with fangs in…all bad attitude and serious business for the guy on top… 

You Might note the web being ejected from the Orb Spiders Spinnerettes. The grass hopper didn’t have a chance…. Not even in the same league….

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2 Striped Mameria Grasshopper

2 Striped Mameria Grasshopper

Here’s a “2 striped Mameria” grasshopper I’ve never noticed before…….. Any Entomologists out there??

Photographers notes…. Took this from 9 inches away…. Good luck getting a grasshopper to stay put sticking a camera in his face lololol….

He got my attention because he was sitting on a white puffball….. Not a toad stool in this case 🤣