AWARDS: ENGLAND / WILTSHIRE / LAKE DISTRICT / WALES / SCOTLAND / COAST OF S.W. ENGLAND / COAST / STORMS / LAKES & MOUNTAINS / WINTER LANDSCAPES / DESERTS / ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY / BRITISH BIRDS 1 / BRITISH BIRDS 2 / BRITISH MAMMALS / BRITISH INSECTS / WORLD BIRDS / WORLD MAMMALS / NATURE
GREAT GREEN BUSH-CRICKET
Great green bush-crickets are Britain's largest species of Orthoptera and undeniably impressive insects. Having found a colony on Roundway Down in Wiltshire, which has a good west-facing aspect, I thought a silhouette of a cricket against the setting sun would make an impressive picture. I tracked one down by its song and placed it on a tall umbellifer stem. My 300mm telephoto lens was the best way to show both the cricket and the sun at good sizes in the frame. I focused on the cricket and exposed for the sun.
F/16, 1/800th second, ISO 100
Accepted: Gia Dinh (Vietnam) 2014
