My first real dragonfly!! by kimariehere

Photography • Animals • posted on Jul 10, 2006

Open full image in new tab Zoom on image

Hover over top left image to zoom.
Click anywhere to exit.

Members remain the original copyright holder in all their materials here at Renderosity. Use of any of their material inconsistent with the terms and conditions set forth is prohibited and is considered an infringement of the copyrights of the respective holders unless specially stated otherwise.

Description

Hello all!! Taken a few days ago . My first dragonfly!! yeaaa ! ( I have one that looks like a little like one in black and white in my gallery called wings in light but thats actually a moth of some sort ) So this little red guy with an attitude (LOL) was my first dragonfly here and so, I did my best to get a macro of him. This is cropped just barly . I was that close ( I was two -three inches away ). Problem was it was quite windy and the leaf was blowing and he was riding that leaf and holding on determined ! THe little red guy seemed to stare at me curiously and intently !! lol... SO , to try and keep him and the leaf he was on still (so I could begin to focus on the macro ) I held on to the swaying leaf he was on and then tryed to shoot with my other hand (which I discovered is quite hard - doing a macro to hold the came with one hand and steady it without a trypod on a windy day haha ) without scaring him away . I think his wings were moving in the shot though so couldnt get them like I had wanted. SO this was the best I could do for the first time . I took a few other shots from above looking down on the wings and backside that was perfectly focused and clear but like this angle from a lower profile position better..!! Taken with my little nikon 7900 pocket cam that really does goes with me everywhere in my pocket lol!! hope its ok...for a first try at one anyways... Thanks for all your time and comments! Love to you all! ((( Big hugs ))) ♥ ~ Kimmers ! :O) ! :O)

Comments (83)

Martinez

1:07PM | Tue, 11 July 2006

Hi Kim. Great image, good details and colours. In other words: excellent work!!! Marcin

)

gunsan

1:50AM | Wed, 12 July 2006

Congrats to your first draginfly, nice little fella. i have not caught any yet. And thanks for the warm Welcome back!!

)

awadissk

2:24AM | Wed, 12 July 2006

This is very nice shot excellently done work!!!!!!!!!!!!!

)

jubchuqun

11:37AM | Wed, 12 July 2006

That is fantastic! I was trying to capture a dragon fly in flight a while back. I am sure people in the park thought I was totally daft as I darted about trying to get a lucky shot. I got a couple, but nothing worth sharing. Li

ScourgeofShadows

1:53PM | Wed, 12 July 2006

A very handsome specimen. Rxcellent work.

)

tommorules

2:27PM | Wed, 12 July 2006

Truly scary at full size! Great shot; how you get so close I have no idea.....

)

iaacf

3:28PM | Wed, 12 July 2006

Ohhhhhh so beautiful image of a dragonfly that I don't know... but.. that is not so strange I think. The fine stucture of the dragon is clearly visible...just look at those wings..

)