Praying Mantis on Stucco
Submitted by Shai Gluskin on July 4, 2008 - 12:54.
Praying Mantis on Stucco: Taken on July 2, 2008 by Shai Gluskin
It's always nice to get back to my blog. I now have an almost complete set of Omer teachings. I've done it in three years, '04, '06, and '08, each doing roughly a third of the days. Now I need to organize them here so that they'll be easy to access.
Photography is always an easy way back for me to create and share. The image you see is about one inch long from top to bottom. Though we often see large praying mantis on our porch in summer, this was a little guy/gal. I have no clue whether it is a praying mantis youth or just a small praying mantis.
I love doing close-up photography. I feel like it opens up new perspectives and wakes me up to see more. This image I used the macro setting on my Canon 2S IS camera. I couldn't get it in focus in the Super macro mode. I've also cropped it tightly as well. You are seeing the image in its full size now/post cropping.
I really like the way the stucco came out. When I say, "I like the way the stucco came out" I mean it two ways: the stucco was re-done about 5 years ago; I like how it came out from the from the hands of the skilled craftsman. I also mean I like the way it came out in the image.
I also had fun with this post title, "Praying Mantis on Stucco." I meant it as a simple description of the content of the photo. But it sounds so much like a title for a piece of art at a museum. Life is art. But I'm glad this praying mantis isn't in a museum.
A nice blog called "Mostly Macro" has a great entry on praying mantis.
I like the way your stucco
I like the way your stucco came out, too. Our last previous home was a townhouse with an ersatz stucco exterior. The builder had it blown on -- paint and small pieces of hard foam to make the T-111 paneling look like stucco. Where the paint was thin, so was the "stucco."
But we've come up in the world: a neighborhood of single-family units with vinyl siding made to look like old, New England small-town wood homes.
I agree: pictures are an easy way to get your post on. I find I come back from vacations ready to post pictures. The rest of the post usually comes easily enough by way of explaining the pictures.
Peter, there are times when
Peter, there are times when I really appreciate our house that is 135 years old. And especially when I can find a crafts person who still applies craft to their trade. [I thought I read somewhere that it is officially okay grammatically to use "their" in order to fudge gender in cases where a "his" or a "her" used to be required. Did I make that up? Do tell, oh high school English teacher.] Maybe I'll post more images of our house.