Composition: Subject Placement, Cropping, Background (20% Weight): 6
Technical: Focus, Exposure, Lighting, Processing (20% Weight): 7
Appeal: Is it Interesting, Motivating, Etc. (30% Weight): 6
How well does it meet the challenge (30% Weight): 8
Total Rating (Rounded) 7
my 4 yr old has been collecting these things all week ...she loves them, they also make good fishing bait =) nice capture..so glad they only have a habit of showing up every 17 yrs
Very nice. It's seems a bit of a stretch for the habits theme but it doesn't change the fact that it's an amazing photo. The color of their eyes is amazing.
I heard an explanation of why 17 years.. it is prime, so the potential eaters, that also "sleep" for a fixed number of years (always prime), can't never get in sync with them and terminate with all in some cicles... if one year they coincide, they have many many years to recover.
Wonderful capture. They look bizarrely plastic - the saturation is lush and the focus is pretty crisp as is the DOF. I like your composition with the diagonal positions of the cicadas and the stem running the full diagonal. The periodicity of the cicadas is hardly a habit, merely their existence, but then again, to me bugs are a photography habit!
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