Praying mantis climbing flowers

Posted by L. Despres (Lyon, France) on 8 September 2007 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.

praying mantis climbing flowers.
mante religieuse escaladant des fleurs.

(this is a second version, with a slightly different post processing)

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Comments (21)

Silvia from steyr, Austria

super Makro!

7 Sep 2007 8:47am

jamsheed from calicut, India

fantastic macro....great capture

7 Sep 2007 9:19am

Paulo from Peso da Régua, Portugal

Beautiful capture! Superb colour!!!

7 Sep 2007 10:27am

Dimitrios from ATHENS, Greece

FANTASTIC, Did you alter the background there?

7 Sep 2007 10:54am

@Dimitrios: absolutelly no alteration of the background. just usual balance of level of colors improvements.

Rabbit from Richmond, United States

A touching moment of simple beauty captured with a great use of DoF. Lovely.

7 Sep 2007 4:29pm

@Rabbit: Thank's Rabbit for this positive comment !

Michel [Une photo,vite et reviens tard] from Cergy (near Paris), France

Une photo majestueuse! Quelle prise de vue!!!

7 Sep 2007 5:07pm

jelb from France

Bonjour,
Superbe "macro"..Grande qualité de détails..bravo!

8 Sep 2007 1:30pm

Shahab from Qazvin, Iran

Great macro shot!Greatly composed between the background & foreground!

9 Sep 2007 12:03am

@Shahab: Thank's Shahab (o;

badala from Leiria, Portugal

Great macro. Beautiful.

9 Sep 2007 2:52am

Takiyah from Snellville, United States

You can tell he was on the move. Very good shot!

9 Sep 2007 5:25am

vero from France

d'une délicatesse.....superbe...

9 Sep 2007 4:18pm

I. Ponceau from Lyon, France

Trés belle macro !
j'adore le fond orangé, la lumière qui arrive un peu par cotés et rend la mante-religieuse presque transparente par endroits

9 Sep 2007 5:51pm

@I. Ponceau: Merci Isa, c'est sympa ! elle avait effectivement l'air transparente en plein soleil.

Mauro from Brussels, Belgium

Beautifully delicate

11 Sep 2007 9:42pm

Daniel Chen from New York, United States

amazing. every time i see macro photographs, i am amazed, simply amazed

everyone is so fast paced here in NY, that nobody realizes how things go by unnoticed.

14 Sep 2007 3:44am

@Daniel Chen: THat's true, when u imagine i did this photo in central Lyon, the 3rd bigest city of France.

kaveh from TEHRAN, Iran

Excellent shot!

17 Sep 2007 8:11am

Yann from Nantes, France

Magnifique mante , j'aime les couleurs de l'ambiance & le mouvement de la bête, j'aime moins les yeux en plein centre et le corps coupé mais je sais ô combien c'est difficile de composer avec la nature/macro.

17 Sep 2007 1:12pm