Hi,
I had not seen a mantis for at least a decade, they are tricky to spot but I do spend a fair amount of time outdoors. Anyways, this past June during our winter we had a week of particularly cold weather and I found this mantis inside, it stayed inside for a few days. Shallow DOF and...
Here is another photo taken 30 minutes ago. Normaly I don't shoot praying mantis because there is too much mantis around my home. But this one was flying and land on my arm so....I shoot her.
Effective magnification 3:1
Handheld single shot with Nikon D7200, Laowa 100mm, Neewer cobra flash and...