Skeletons

[ewkaw]

This would be quite a typical summer view around here. Dried up flower leftovers rocking on the wind.
Except that I shot those back in February when usually things are as green as they can be. Not many flowers yet, but the grass and weeds enjoy the cool and rainy weather.

And among all the green the tall and dead skeleton of wild carrot (Daucus carota) I believe were enjoying bits of sun. Amazing how they managed this long. All the hot sun, winds, animals, rain and more winds. Some are a bit damaged, but the very long and skinny stems and hanging on. All those were just above 1m tall.

On one of those, by accident I found one tiny Praying Mantis :)

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_{Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens
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Comments

[cherepin0512]

Black and white photography captures the meaning of photography well. There are not many colors that distract from the main thing. Thank you.

[armandosodano]

well done!
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[ewkaw]

Thank you :)

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[dynamichivers]

What do you think it is? A blight?

Anyways, your praying mantis' look way different than in SW USA. They are solid green. Mostly from commercial shipments as I am sure they are not native. Now I feel guilty for buying them on your post about 3' tall wild growing carrots in Febuary😋

[ewkaw]

I read somewhere that this is African type... (mantis, not carrot :p). This one is brownish and I think it's smaller than the green one you talk about.

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[apnigrich]

nice skeletons 😂

[ewkaw]

Hahah yep :D
All dead!

[wwwiebe]

The textures of those wild carrots really stands out in black and white. Great stuff.

[ewkaw]

Thank you :)

[ludmila.kyriakou]

Nice, especially the photo with the Praying Mantis!

[ewkaw]

Thanks :)