{"id":3162,"date":"2013-09-03T23:57:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T22:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2013-09-04T01:11:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T00:11:29","slug":"desktop-cricket-photo-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/desktop-cricket-photo-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop Cricket (photo series)"},"content":{"rendered":"

These photos were taken last night, while I was working on the computer (when I say ‘working’, I mean tweeting or blogging, or possibly playing with photos). To be honest I can’t now remember. Anyway, while I was typing I felt the merest tickle of something on the underside of my wrist. It was a bush cricket, calmly striding under my hands as I typed away.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how it got in here (best guess is that it hitched a lift on me when I’d been out in the garden), but they are delightful, colourful creatures and before I returned it to the garden I took a few photos.<\/p>\n

\"Speckled<\/a>
Desktop Cricket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Speckled<\/a>
Climbing the plate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Speckled<\/a>
Paper Towel Ascent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Speckled<\/a>
I’m Brave!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Speckled<\/a>
errr… Second Thoughts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And this final link is for those who were misled by the title and were after a game of cricket… Desktop Cricket<\/a> (game).<\/p>\n

Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These photos were taken last night, while I was working on the computer (when I say ‘working’, I mean tweeting or blogging, or possibly playing with photos). To be honest I can’t now remember. Anyway, while I was typing I felt the merest tickle of something on the underside of my wrist. It was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[991],"tags":[232,760],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insects-2","tag-insect","tag-speckled-bush-cricket","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t