Red Dragonfly
All were taken with my 70-300 MM lens with the 36&12mm extension tubes attached.
F/20 1/200sec ISO 400 W/ flash Focal length 170mm
F/20 1/200sec ISO 400 W/ flash Focal length 112mm
I have a few more good ones that I will me adding to my albums.
Very nice! Persistance pays off. Sure, practice makes perfect but, unless you learn from your mistakes, you are only perfecting your ability to fail.
Do you think there was a special attraction for that antenna? Some kind of a mistake where the bug sees a attractive lady dragon fly or perhaps it is eating a snack off the top? I ask only because I have seen lots of dragonfly's use this same perch.
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Thanks part of the time I forget to change were to post and sometime is I do not click elsewhere on the page when I go to scroll it changes the category.Alex wrote: Excellent shot, I just moved your thread to the photo galleries - for general display and critique forum
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Just a suggestion could it be changed to were you have to chose before your message will post. For those forgetful people like me.
Charles in this case he was using it as a look out. One of the times he came back to perch he was still chewing, I missed that shot. I just could not get focused in time.
Returning to a perch is pretty common among many species of insects, probably for various reasons. You made good use of it and took some excellent shots. Great job!
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