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Jewel and the Crown


Jewel and the Crown
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Copyright: Ram Thakur (ramthakur) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3028 W: 114 N: 8100] (26195)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-06-21
Categories: Insects
Camera: Nikon D200, Sigma EX 105mm F2.8 DG Macro, 58mm UV
Exposure: f/5.0, 1/400 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): Alex99's favorite shots [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-06-28 1:42
Viewed: 546
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 50
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Friends, first of all, I must thank you all for your kind critiques on my previous post.
My internet connection at home is temporarily out of action, so I could not write return critiques yesterday and am posting my picture today from my work place. I will try to catch up with the backlog as soon as possible.

To continue with my theme of life systems existing on some plants, I am posting yet another picture of a colourful, blue-eyed Grasshopper sitting atop the flowers of Calotropis plant -- an Asian Milkweed that grows in abundance on dry shrublands. The plant is also known as Crown Plant.
Though Haraprasan is of the opinion that this could be a Painted Grasshopper, I have my doubts. I have seen many pictures of Painted Grasshopper on bugguide.com and I feel the American specimens look quite different from what I have captured here in India. Broadly speaking, it could be a Painted Grasshopper native to Asia/India.
However, reverting to my theme, I observed that the species of insects that thrive on this poisonous plant are only these grasshoppers and Seed Bugs.
My observation is based on two different locales 40 kilometers apart -- Okhla Bird Park in Delhi and an interior valley on the highway between Gurgaon and Faridabad in Haryana state. At both locations, both these insects were seen living off the plant. Surprisingly, there was no other insect in sight.
I have already posted the pictures of these insects shot in both the locations.

For information on the plant/insects, please refer to my previous posts.

TFL and have a great weekend.
cicindela, eng55, uleko, fyapici, mayuresh, Alex99, Argus, red45, SelenE, jaycee, eqshannon, sranjan, Miss_Piggy has marked this note useful
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  • siggi Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 477 W: 11 N: 1348] (4706)
  • [2008-06-28 1:47]

Hi Ram,
wonderful shot and nice macro!I like it.
Well done.
Greetings.
Siegfried

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  • eng55 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 474 W: 3 N: 474] (1475)
  • [2008-06-28 1:57]
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Hi Ram,
Excellent macro shot.Exposure is spot on,focus couldn't be better.Colors,POV and composition are also perfect.Have a great weekend too!
Thanks for posting.

Hello Ram!
This time only a short comment - a lot of work before next trip this Monday...
Very nice picture with very good comosition, but what I like the most is - the object! Thanks to your pictures (this and some earlier) I saw this little Orthoptera larvae for the first time. I have to say that this is one of the most colourful grasshopper I have seen in my life! And its colouration clearly suggests that it has to be poisonous, as you marked in the note :)
Well, thank you for showing this lovely creature and I hope to see soon some other amazing Asian intects from you!
Friendly yours,
Radomir

Hello Ram,

Superb composition with an excellent POV. Great focus and wonderful detail. Very good light and splendid colours.
Cheers,
Mariki

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  • uleko Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2585 W: 170 N: 7879] (24911)
  • [2008-06-28 2:37]

Hello Ram,
Another excellent capture showing this beautiful grasshopper or nymph on the pretty Milkweed. I like the diagonal lines in the composition and details are very sharp. Lovely colours and the green background makes it really stand out.
Many thanks and regards, Ulla

Hi Ram,
Wonderful my dear friend. What a strange creature that you have captured it, I have never seen before.

Very well done my friend. Bravo!
Greetings,
Fevzi

bonjour ram
je n'aurais qu'un mot a dire.
SPLENDIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bravo
laurent

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  • Alex99 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3174 W: 154 N: 4796] (15481)
  • [2008-06-28 3:40]

Hi Ram.
Top quality close-up picture of amazing subject. Both plant (with flowers) and insect are wonderful. I have never seen such colourful and beautiful insect. Technically and esthetically shot is simply outstanding. I am impressed with precise exposure and colout tone reproduction, great DOF and sharpness of the main objects, fine smooth and also colourful BG. Composition is spot on too. Bravo and my congratulations.
Alexei.

Hello Ram Sir,
this is a beautiful close-up shot with nice composition,sharp focusing and good lighting,you got a very good BG and lovely colours,
TFS

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  • san Silver Note Writer [C: 6 W: 0 N: 21] (150)
  • [2008-06-28 3:44]

Hello Ram Sir,
Yet another superb composition. A true jewel in your crown. Details on the insect's body are so amazingly clear.
A wonderful job. My eyes dont seem to come off the insect.
T a lot FS
San

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  • Argus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2770 W: 151 N: 7984] (24857)
  • [2008-06-28 4:53]

Great title to a great macro, Ram!
The colourful grasshopper nymph is well placed in relation to the Milkweed flower and the overall sharpness is excellent against an OOF BG. Your recent series of shot a joy to look at and this is no exception.
Thank you!
Best regards, Ivan

Ram,
this is a very interesting shot of the really colorful GH and very well presented too.
And a lovely and informative note to go with it.
In a short span i've become a fan of your pics and the notes that go with them.
tfs
rgds
pushpinder

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2816 W: 75 N: 7977] (26975)
  • [2008-06-28 7:24]

Hello Ram!

Stunning capture!!! This grasshopper looks really extraterrestial, like made from mosaic of colorfull pieces of porcelain. Excellent colours and composition with 'crown'. Real king of grassshoppers!

Dear Ram Sir,
As said before, you have made us see so much in this milk plant only....is there anything still left!!! I have sharpened the main subject in a WS, hope you like it.
Regards-Subhash

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  • SelenE Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2426 W: 63 N: 4002] (12926)
  • [2008-06-28 7:41]

Hi Ram,
What a colorful grasshopper. POV, details, colors,contrast and background look very nice. TFS
Greetings,
Selen

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  • lousat Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1107 W: 6 N: 3063] (11326)
  • [2008-06-28 8:42]

Hi Ram,how i like this beautifulls grasshppers,they are incredibles whit this fanatstics colors,my best compliments for the perfet capture,have a nice day,Luciano

Hello Ram,
Another photo of this wonderful insect. Great sharpness, details and colours. The composition is perfect. Beautiful OOF BG.
Regards,
Peter

Hi Ram,
Fantastic image well framed with great colors and details
really well done
TFS and Regards
Jean-Michel

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  • jaycee Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1911 W: 8 N: 4976] (16095)
  • [2008-06-28 9:48]

Hi Ram,

A wonderful addition to your series. The grasshopper is exquisite with beautiful colors and details. I am sure that very few of us have ever seen such an insect. The plant is beautiful too - I love seeing the buds along with the opened flower. A superb composition of a fascinating subject.

Jane

It continues to be an amazing series of a small pesky creature with clothes like a lamb:-) to mix a few metaphors and leave some words out. Very nice.
Bob

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  • joey Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1888 W: 245 N: 6180] (22002)
  • [2008-06-28 13:48]

Another great shot of this Painted Grasshopper.
It is a beautiful insect!
Great composition and POV.
Lovely colours.
Perfect DOF.

Well done,
Joe

Hello Ram
Thanks for presenting your nice shot. I like these vivid colours of your picture. And the object is so interesting. Sharpness - perfect.
Congratulations
Ania

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  • gannu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 996 W: 4 N: 2570] (11874)
  • [2008-06-29 21:46]

Hello Sir, This is just superb amazing shot. What a colorful insect. Perfect Ganesh

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  • vral Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 60 W: 1 N: 191] (871)
  • [2008-06-29 23:41]

Hello Sir,

wonderful capture of this Grasshopper. Color and compo are too good.

TFS

vral

Hallo Ram
Due to the fact that I have been ill, I just could not give my comments to some of the lovely images that appeared and past me by on the gallery. Now I have such a lot of catching up to do so please pardon me for only saying……………………
Splendid image. I only but appreciate this stunning photograph and it did not go unnoticed. Indeed a jewel you have captured. An unique display of colour and beauty.
Best regards
Anna

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