This is the time of year to see dragonflies at their most active. I'm fortunate to have a small dew pond a few hundred yards from where I work, and I've been able to spend a few minutes in the sunshine watching their incredible aerial display over the water.
The photos here (and in the Butterflies and Bugs album) were taken with a long lens, but I'm tempted to try with the macro if the good weather holds. These were taken on my third or fourth visit to the pond and I'm beginning to understand their flight patterns and identify resting points. The first attempts were generally awful, but I'm learning the art of waiting for them to come to the camera.
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ALLY_G
14 Jun 2007To take photos of a dragon fly is one of the hardest, because it's fly is very fast and it seems to be incalculable.
Therefore your photos here are sensational. :up:
SittingFox
14 Jun 2007^I'm seconding Elke, beautiful photos of a very challenging family of subjects :yes: I hope you have success with the macro lens too 🙂
anonymous
14 Jun 2007Zachary writes:
The weight of these insects is clear in how much air force is hitting the small pool in the second picture! (Unless he had just alighted for a second) In any case, a spectacular capture.
Flying Red Fox Blog
14 Jun 2007Very good shots well done 😀
Words
14 Jun 2007Thanks. It's taken several attempts t work out how to capture them, initially incredibly frustrating until I figured out where they would hover and alight.
Zachary: it did touch down at that point, but after these shots. The down force is astonishing.