Keith Burton's photos with the keyword: cricket

Perhaps the commonest Bush-cricket found in England. They're quite easy to spot, but it's not easy finding one prepared sit still enough to have it's photo taken :-))

I don't really follow (or understand) the game, but I watched a little bit of this match taking place in Priory Park, Chichester, and took a few photos. When I decided to post these images I looked on the internet for a simple explanation of the rules and found this: "You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game..!!" Simple............................

A bit of an impromptu bug-hunt today.............once again, I did not have my macro gear with me, so used my Oly 40-150mm Pro lens with a 10mm extension tube. These are also large crops.