Mantra of a Mantis: “Eat or be eaten!”
Mantra of a Mantis: “Eat or be eaten!”
Recently I submitted a few images of a Hottentots God. Today I decided to play in Photoshop with one of the pictures combined with an older one of this sacred insect. Originally I had a purple background but after I added the different (highly mutilated in Photoshop) element layers I decided to choose for a …
Insects, none domesticated animals alike, are not patient when posing for a photo shot. What the people of Cape Town are for other South Africans is the Hottentots God for insects; Relax, tomorrow is another day…
I needed 5 different pictures for this composition. The first one is the sky (mainframe) added with the photo’s of respectively the lorry going off-hill; 2 of the cows (one mirrored) plus the sheep. The pictures have one thing on common; they were all made within a radius of 2 kilometers in Papiesvlei nearby our …
This nice poem about the Hottentots God inspired me last week to picture one but than if you search it takes long so I took my chance and did the search like a Capetonian (very, very, laid back) and yes it worked (this time….). The insect suddenly landed on my hand and I had to …