Golden-ringed Dragonfly on Iris leaves by durleybeachbum
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Description
Cordulegaster boltonii in my garden yesterday.
I was thrilled when it finally stopped for a moment: I was getting dizzy watching it flash about endlessly.
Another shot Here
Comments (23)
fantastisches Bild
Excellent picture !!!!!!!!!!
Oh i love this one hon one great capture.
Very beautiful dragonfly Great capture
Wow! a wonderful capture and a fine specimen. If you need to observe delicate beauty in nature just look closely at those wings, I would say beautiful.
Superb! Great shot Andrea!
Glad it stopped long enough for you to take this super pic!!
Wonderful capture. Aloha
Wonderful capture Andrea
Wow!!! This is fantastic! I'm also drawn to the ripple in the that one leaf, I love how they do this!
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
Very beautiful indeed.
ou lucky man to get this one :)
GREAT CAPTURE
Two superb images. It seems to have something on its wing (pollen?). The bio-diversity in your garden is stunning.
Patience triumphs - great capture & worth the wait...
Both are splendid shots!
awesome !!
In two words, UTTERLY AWESOME!
An amazing close-up photo Andrea. Fantastic details and clarity!
Nice it showed coorporative to you - great capture!! :o)
Wow he looks big.
Re your description, I've actually paid flying-insects to stop for me: They took the money, but didn't stop. If you say, "do I have to stand here all day"---bupkiss. Nothin'. They don't give a fig. Worse than street photography. But Andrea, this is a gem! You have the fly on a perfect angle to the stalks: The angles are well-balanced, as if you'd posed the d.fly there. The yellow-green of the d.fly brings out the yellow-greens of the stalks. The light is strong and sharp. And the texture of its wings cross so nicely with the most textured stalks. And then the background breaks in where it ought to, giving dark contrasts to the whole: I mean it's like a studio shot. Your wait wasn't in vain! (Insects make terrible models, btw, but I've had a vision of walking into a studio where insects are all sitting around reading magazines, while one beetle is being primped for a shoot...) A symphony in yellows and greens; and a shout-out of a shot---love it. Hope to be back for more soon, Andrea. Always a pleasure! (if I wrote shorter comments, I could do every image I miss. Buuuuuuuut, that's not in the realm of possibility, unfortunately.) (Ok, you wanna hear an insect joke? Ok. This moth goes to an endocrinologist, starts to weep, and says: "I've had the worst night! I tossed and turned about my life, thought about my wife getting ill: What if she dies? Will I make it without her? Thought about my son, who has a rare condition and needs my attention, thought about the futility of life, the desperation of trying to find a moment of happiness in an empty universe, thought about the ennui of work, the ennui of love, the ennui of faith or no faith---I'm broken into pieces, doctor, dejected, caught in a swirl of existential nausée---god, please: Help me!" The endocrinologist says, "lord, that's quite a story! But I'm an endocrinologist: You need a psychotherapist! Why did you come to me???" And the moth says: "The light was on..." Ooookay, that's the best I could come up with. Have a good day, Andrea!)