Through The Viewfinder....Exploring The Art Of Photography

It was an ordinary day.  Reading a column in my local newspaper that was titled "THROUGH THE VIEWFINDER...Exploring The Art Of Photography.  Through the Viewfinder is a weekly feature by LNP/LancasterOnline photographers exploring the art of black-and-white and color photography.  Today's featured photograph was by Suzette Wenger who has been with the Lancaster Newspaper for many years.  She even made yearly visits to my photography classes when I was still teaching high school.  It often would show the girls in my classes that they too can be just as successful as the boys in the field of photography after seeing Suzette's work.  Suzette's column today read...If you've recently spent time outdoors, you might have noticed it's not as quiet as it normally is.  The annual go-day cicadas have emerged from the ground, and they make a plethora of noise that reminds us it's summertime.  Sometimes they are called the annual cicada or locusts, but they are named for their arrival around the time when Sirius, the "Dog Star," is visible at sunset.  Basically, they are alive in July and August, as they live from four to six weeks during the "go days of summer."  The critters are larger than periodical cicadas, which appear every 117 years.  The nymphs for this type of cicada take two to three years to complete their development, but some adults emerge every year because of the overlapping of generations.  Today's image was shot with a Nikon D700 with a 105 mm micro lens.  A tripod was used to capture this image that was shot at 1/60 of a second shutter speed, the f-stop was f-11, and the ISO was set to 100.  Bounce fill flash was employed to record this photo.  Processing was completed in Photoshop with some minor burning around the edges.  Thanks Suzette for the great photos you have taken for many years, both in black and white as well as color.  I don't think I ever saw one of your photographs that wasn't processed to perfection.  And...thanks for the many trips you made to Manheim Township High School to speak to my photograph classes.  The students really enjoyed your presentations as well as I did.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.  

Photograph by Suzette Wenger