Ti's Photoblog
Is it Summer yet?
Posted by Ti (Alpharetta, United States) on 17 January 2009 in Animal & Insect.
It is so freaking cold today! Will this warm you up a bit? Well, at least keep that image in mind for something to looking forward to...in 7 months!
Now posting on Monday and Thursday
Astrid from Netherlands
Ti, I loved your text with it.....freaking cold....some English expression are so wonderful to hear with my Dutch ears......
This is a wonderful picture, I love it that they all push the one who is first in line to move to the end of the branch to took out over the field if summer is arriving soon............:)
Great close up.
17 Jan 2009 1:45pm
@Astrid: I'm not American myself, Astrid, but I think this is how they change the language for "family viewing" on TV when the actual word was "fxxking"... More powerful and emphasis, I think... :-)
I actually cropped he heck (another substitue for "hell") out from the original photo, I was very suprised it turns out not that grainny. It was taken past summer when we visit our son in Fukuoka, Japan. The whole area was infested with cicadas (that's why you see 3 here, just on a section of one branch, imgine the whole tree...) and they are soooo loud that just hurts your ear!
@Ana Lúcia: Thank you, are they different from those in your country?
Diane Schuller from Hythe, Canada
remarkable detail -- excellent (and thank you for telling me more about your dog! Our dogs get so upset at the squirrels too) :-)
20 Jan 2009 9:41pm
@Diane Schuller: I'm really miss theirsinging now...under near freezing temperature! :-)
Grahame from Mt Maunganui, New Zealand
I have some of these guys cousins singing outside my window at present.
Not a good year for them here this year, but know what you mean by deafening !!
Cool picky.
22 Jan 2009 11:36pm
@Grahame: Well, do they look alike?
Nikon D200
1/640 second
F/4.5
ISO 400
70 mm