Macro and Flora IOTW 9/11/09 Christopher Miller

[Alfred Forns]

Congratulations Christopher Miller
Friendly Praying Mantis

I had a very interesting experience with this praying mantis. I had been outside photographing and came inside to discover this praying mantis on my shirt! I think he must have really wanted his picture taken! Of course, I obliged and spent several minutes photographing him once I got him off my shirt and back outside. Any C&C are welcome!

Olympus SP-550 UZ
f4.5 1/60, ISO 100, -0.3 EV
Aperture priority mode, pattern metering, cloudy WB
Processed in PS CS2; rotated to straighten the image, cropped, noise reduction, some selective sharpening, curves adjustments, and slight saturation boost

[Morkel Erasmus]

great DOF and colour here. well deserved...

[Harshad Barve]

Congratulations , well deserved

[denise ippolito]

Excellent Christopher!Congratulations!

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Christopher,
Lovely image. Congratulations on the Image of the Week.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Phil Ertel]

Congratulations Christopher on Macro/Flora Image of the Week! Love those eyes!

[Christopher Miller]

Thanks a lot, everyone! This was such a surprise! :D

[DanWalters]

Congratulations on a great image! Great story as well.

[Steve Maxson]

Big congrats, Christopher!

[Harold Davis]

a twofer!!! nice going, christopher!!!

[Nate Chappell]

Congrats Christopher, very cool!

[Indranil Sircar]

Congratulations, Christopher. Excellent image and a well deserved win.

[Fabs Forns]

Very well done, congratulations :)

[Gus Cobos]

Congratulations Christopher...:cool:

[edgar-junior]

Congratulations!!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Congratulations, Christopher!

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Congrats Christopher; two wins, and this is a wonderful image. Well done!