Thanks again everyone. This is the type of discussion I love to see. In fact, I think it would be an excellent idea if the mods had a weekly image for discussion?

As for the hopper at hand, it's actually not hopping in any direction. It's doing it's mating dance, where it hops straight up vertically, and will fly in the same spot for several seconds, before dropping back down. This attracts other grasshoppers for mating.

Twopynt's and Headless' crops are both very close to the crops I would use also. Vertical would be true to the actual event as it happened.