Some kind of Cricket (and a flower)

[Kerioak]

Sunny morning so I decided to have a second go with my new lens, this time I found some a cricket of some kind sitting on a calendula seed head

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4. Rear view of a Pink Cosmos

C&C especially welcome as Macro is new to me

 

[turbotoes]

There you go, much a prettier bug!!

I think the second and third might work better in portrait (or I maybe the ony one who turns her head sideways to at things when they are the "wrong" way round? :shrug
I think you're going to get hooked on this malarkey

 

[zulupentax]

Love the #3, stunning eye contact and the sharpness is absolutely fantastic.
I like the DOF effect it has also, well done

 

[Canon Bob]

Nicely done Christine

For the record, it's a Dark Bush Cricket.....Pholidoptera griseoaptera

Bob

 

[Kerioak]

Thanks all, and especially for the identification Bob, I did look but could not find it, most I found did not have that helmet looking part