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Photographer’s Note

Do you ever wonder what is the shape of the noisy little insect that you hear out in the field, mostly at night? here it is, it is this kind of Crickets i was looking at the dark for it between this tree branches and leafs then i gave up and i decided to capture the moon between the leafs so... i set up the camera on the Auto multi Focus points and I aimed to the moon but the Auto Focus of course focused on the nearest object and...I couldn't believe my eyes... it was it!!! the cricket i was looking for on the little branch singing again in the moon light and the moon is his background...what a star cricket ;)Lucky Strike, isn't it?
Sam.

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turansezer (941) 2008-07-03 0:22

Hi SAM
Minimalist and plain
Regards
Turan SEZER

worldcitizen (2305) 2008-07-03 14:16

Hello Sam,
I also like this minimalist capture. The silhouettes of the cricket and leaves are perfect. They are brought out even more by the softly blurred moon in the background. I like the songs of those crickets, too. They mainly sing here at the end of summer, so they always remind me of that time of year. :-)

Fly (244) 2008-07-04 12:53

Hi Wisam. This is certainly a remarkable image - one in a thousand. The backlighting fom the moon is perfect and your composition (even though it was accidental) is the sort of thing one only sees in cartoons. The fact that the cricket is positioned to the edge of the light circle, facing into the circle, is excellent. Finally, the image is pin sharp and amazingly grain free, considering your ISO setting of 3200 Well done, mate. JP

giorgimer (21478) 2008-07-16 5:23

Hi Sam,

a very original idea. Simple but effective, B/W works well.

TFS

Gio

abulafia (4802) 2008-07-25 0:16

Very lucky indeed Sam:))
I like it, very nice with only the moon lit part visible, but couldn't you have made a tighter crop, to take away some of the dark space and also make the cricket bigger?
Harry