Hey hey Peter, glad you like the pics! 
Iāll process another batch soon I hope and post more. Iāve got a ton up here:
http://www.rebeccakimmel.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=38&page=2
Itās a lot of rocks and hills. 
But theyāre really pretty. I was really glad to have driven out here vs. just flying and shipping the car out. I definitely want to see more of Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. The Grand Canyon blew my mind.
hey rebecca, beautiful street/rock shots. Inspired by that I would like to indroduce a german traffic jam. IĀ“ve taken the photo on thuesday last week on the way back home after a meeting with one of our customer. This traffic jam was about 11 kilometer long caused by the usual high velocity accidents.
greetings
fahrija
What a cool trip, reading your blog I didnāt realize you drove the whole way, good for you.
I just recently had a chance to see the Grand Canyon too. There is no way to put into words the visual splendor of seeing such a thing, sensory overload! Iād seen pictures before but didnāt do it any justice. It was cool being a business trip with all the business over, me and my friends found a rock outcrop and watched the sun set and the stars come out, that was amazing. Reminds me that no matter what we produce, nature is the ultimate spectacle.
hate those traffic jamsā¦they drive me insane!
Here are a few pics I took today while out and about. Iām enjoying my holiday!
Oh wow, capturing a fly, very nice.
I had the hardest time taking a picture of a honey bee that wouldnāt hold still let alone a fly.
I have a new addiction- insect photography! You need to take so many pics before you actually find one thatās worth keeping, but I love seeing them so close up.
It is indeed, not quite as good as you-know-what though. sigh
I donāt suppose thereās any hope of a comeback, even for one week?
hi Paperclip - I have had a long standing interest in ābug picturesā, here is one from my online portfolio (btw - long time no see!!!)
Gord
Off topic but I had to post somewhere. I just read 7 pages of the āMario Party/PCā debate thread only to find that Leigh closed it. Dah! And I had such funny things to add to the conversation.
Oh well.
I am simply outraged. What if I donāt paint, I render? Theyāre not being sensitive to the 3d community.
IĀm a bug nut too. HereĀs one of my bug pics. Plenty more where that came from.
Actually macro photography is a hobby of mine and insects are favorite subjects. I recently started scanning a bunch of 35mm slides from my pre-digital days and thought this would be the perfect place to show them, along with some digital photos.
This thread is a very interesting and relaxing departure from the daily grind.
Is that a female? I think I saw a tv show once about them breeding. It was bizzare, cause while they were having intercourse the female started eating the male. But it didnāt stop him from doing his job. Pretty amazing. Have you perhaps encountered such scenario while shooting? :shrug:
Pretty sure itĀs a male Praying Mantis. YouĀre supposed t be able to tell males from females by the number of segments they have on their abdomens. Males have 8, females 6. And yes, females often cannibalize the males during sex, though IĀve never witnessed this myself.
I had a green and a brown mantis as pets some 15+ years ago, and shot tons of photos of them. These are scans from that bunch. I picked the mantids up in early fall and decided to keep them. The first frost would have killed them anyway. I had to keep them separated for the cannibalism reason. The brown one turned out to be female. That was obvious when she laid an egg cluster on the top of the aquarium. I feed them crickets through the winter.
HereĀs another mantid pic. This one was of the brown one. I played with the colors in Photoshop.
