Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don Checked them on the web and remember the sound from US coverage on the news channels over here. They seem to get worldwide publicity (they must have a great agent), and do sound pretty ok, but I wonder whether the noise of thousands of them outside the bedroom would pall. I remember having a couple of terrible nights' sleep in Borneo due to the incredible croaking of hundreds of frogs looking for love, but the jet lag mightn't have helped.... Douglas On 27/03/2021 21:55, Don Dory via LUG wrote: > Douglas, I suggest searching for Cicada sounds. It a most amazing and > pleasant noise on spring/ summer afternoons. Then there is the pleasure > of watching children collecting the discarded shells and doing imaginative > play. Think of an Instagram image of these as giant creatures from the > black lagoon... > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2021, 4:19 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > >> Never seen one like that Jim, as they don't make it over here. But a >> very cool image! Is that one alive or dead? >> >> Douglas >> >> On 27/03/2021 18:58, Jim Nichols wrote: >>> When the weather is bad, I sometimes go back through the archives to >>> find candidates for reprocessing. This adult Cicada was captured >>> during their appearance in May 2011 using my Olympus E-1 and Olympus >>> 35/3.5 Macro lens, and the image is uncropped. The image was touched >>> up slightly with modern processing software. >>> >>> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20110517-Adult_Cicada.JPG.html >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information