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Pink anemonefish – amphiprion perideraion
Photographed at approximately 10 meters deep.

Pink anemonefish - amphiprion perideraion

D800 in Ikelite housing, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/16, Tamron 90mm macro, 2 Ikelite strobes

Pink anemonefish – amphiprion perideraion
Photographed at approximately 15 meters deep.

Pink anemonefish - amphiprion perideraion

D800 in Ikelite housing, ISO100, 1/250 sec @ f/11, Tamron 90mm macro, 2 Ikelite strobes

Clearly I wasn’t the only one who’d been trespassing in the times gone by. The place was riddled with old clothes, one or two helmets, and other remains of people who’d stayed there after the fire had done its work. Of course destruction of this type is often followed by additional “vandalism”, since the place is going to be taken down / renovated anyway, it apparently doesn’t matter if you don’t respect other people’s property. Graffiti and other forms of “art” were found throughout the place.
One thing that caught my eye was something I could use forΒ  one of my little projects:

Pink shoe

D800, ISO100, 15 sec @ f/16, Nikkor 14-24mm

Place your orders for prints, posters, cups, etc. etc. now, before any one else has the chance! You’ll be one of the first ones with a poster over your bed like this!
I’d never seen a pink grasshopper before, so I googled it and there’s a stack of results coming up saying this is a rare thing. I remain sceptical until the orders come in πŸ˜€

Ok, all jokes aside… When out with the Better Half (I guess I won’t disclose the location to prevent news teams showing up at the place πŸ˜€ ) I took a stroll through the garden when my eye caught a glimps of an out-of-place color. At least for the part where I was looking. I checked in closer and saw the cutest little creature sitting on a leaf.
Needless to say I went for the camera to shoot a couple of pictures. I did have the macro lens on, but that didn’t really turn out too good, so I went back to the car to get my bag and the extension tubes, expecting the little bugger to be gone by the time I came back. But lo and behold: it was patient, and and apparently experienced in modeling, because it had turned around, head up, facing right up in to the light (if you lean in closely you might even catch a catch light or 500 πŸ˜‰ ). So I set up the tripod, which I also brought, put the extension tube on, stuck it in the face of the grasshopper and even then it didn’t move.

Pink grasshopper sitting on a green leaf

D700, ISO200, 1/250 sec @ f/4.8, Tamron 90mm macro + 24mm extension tube

June, July and August are probably going to be the most quiet times on this blog.
Not really sorry, but I’m going to apologize for enjoying the summer and totally neglecting writing anyway.
Especially being in Finland, where “summer” is defined somewhat different than elsewhere in the world.
Especially when we’re going on our 6th consecutive day of sun and 20+ degrees Celcius. That’s quite an achievement.

Suffice to say I’m out…
Enjoy the summer, as I will, and I’ll be writing whenever it might be raining πŸ˜‰

D200, ISO100, 1/125 sec @ f/8, Sigma 10-20mm

D200, ISO100, 1/125 sec @ f/8, Sigma 10-20mm