Great shots as usual @daveks ! Are the tall dead trees remnants from the fires a few years ago?

Thanks @brucewayn3 !

Thank you very much @qwerrie !

Thank you very much! Yes, the small world is quite frightful!

Thank you! Yeah, without venom or a powerful initial bite to dispatch the prey item, mantis just grab it and start chewing away! It's comforting knowing that even the biggest mantis isn't larger than your

Thank you very much @castleberry !

Thank you very much!

That is certainly true! The only way to find out is to try. Also, look at the results of other's prompts and you'll be able to get closer to the image you want.

Thank you!

Wow, right in your backyard then!

Takedao-eki is the closest stop, it's in the old train tunnels for that line. It's been converted into a hiking area. In the east part of Hyogo, near Takarazuka-shi.

Very nice, I love the first image!

Doing well, it starting to cool off a bit. I've got a picture to put up in an art show in a tunnel next weekend, hopefully the weather cooperates and the typhoon goes elsewhere! I'll make a post about

I love those mountains, it always seems to me that the crust of the Earth was just bent up and snapped off by some incomprehensibly huge giant! It's not too far from the actual geological happenings though:

There certainly are many that share that opinion! Recently, a Midjourney created work won an art competition, and many were very angry. The author of the article or perhaps the artist/person who submitted

Thank you very much @castleberry!

Thanks, ironically I was searching for crab spiders when I spotted this jumping spider!

Outstanding shots @daveks!

It's really quite interesting!

Thank you @azamsohabi!