Every year about this time we get one grasshopper (that I notice). Here is 2013's.
Both of your images are close-up photos, NOT macro-photographs. Your subject is not a grasshopper; it is a mature Fork-tailed bush katydid (Scudderia furcata). Below is a true macro-photograph, 1:1 magnification (life-size), of the same species.
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