On the 11th of September 2010, I spent some time around some iconic plants that grow on the dry and sunny terrain near the sea ...

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... busy photographing the young grasshoppers that were well hidden among the thorns. 

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This is a relatively big, well-developed nymph ...

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... of the Anacridium aegyptium grasshopper ...

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... the main and only insect protagonist of this post.

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I photographed two young Anacridium aegyptium individuals on that occasion.

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One of them was surrounded by juicy yellow flowers on the Scolymus hispanicus thistle ...

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... the other was hiding among the long, annoying thorns ...

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... of the Xanthium spinosum plant.

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I had three good pieces of equipment at my disposal back then.

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The Canon EOS 350D camera ...

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... Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro lens ...

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... and the Canon Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX flash ...

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... so I was able to take plenty of similar photographs ...

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... lit in a slightly different way ...

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... photographs in which the Anacridium aegyptium nymphs were caught in a few different poses.

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Here, the grasshopper is cleaning its eye.

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In this pose, you can take a good look at the insect's strong hindleg. 

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While the adult grasshoppers all look the same ...

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... the Anacridium aegyptium nymphs come in quite a few colors.

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You'll see only the green version in this post ...

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... but four days ago I published a post in which you can see the brown variation. Here is the link : 
https://ecency.com/hive-119845/@borjan/portraits-on-the-lichen-covered
You can see the Anacridium aegyptium o the opening photograph of that post.

![img_5292_malo](https://images.ecency.com/DQmXqbq5neZrZgJwUUwWutFyLYwfwFiWx2nyysk4WnMzrnC/img_5292_malo.jpg)

Another interesting variation was included in one of the older posts, published a month ago. In that post the photo is somewhere in the middle of a pretty long story, so I took the picture and I'm about to publish it here again.

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This is the third version. The photograph was taken in August of 2021.

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Early this morning, when I started preparing the old shots from 2010 ...

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... I couldn't resist the temptation to play a bit with some options in Photoshop ...

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... so these two deviant images also ended up in the post.

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*AND THAT'S IT.*

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*AS ALWAYS IN THESE POSTS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK - THE END.*