The last few days my dad has spotted the first damselflies we have ever seen in my parents' backyard. They proved difficult to approach, and I was unsuccessful at photographing them yesterday without scaring them off. Today, I decided to use the macro setting on my zoom lens to attempt to get some shots from farther away, and was rewarded with some pretty cool results. From my photos I was able to (I think) identify this as a male double-striped bluet (Enallagma basidens).
Check out those eyes!!!
Check out those eyes!!!
The head-on perspective is amazing, those eyes look beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI like that head on shot Monika.
ReplyDeleteI use 300mm zoom lens, for Damsels and dragons, you can only get so close to them before they fly off!
Dang, that is pretty cool!!! I agree, that head-on shot is awesome!
ReplyDeleteI'm using your blog layout as a guide for my update. I'm still not happy with the results yet, but I'll just keep playing with it.
It was very cool to be "eye-to-eye" with one of these guys!
ReplyDeleteWarren - that makes a lot of sense. I took these photos with my 300 mm and it was definitely a lot easier than using my macro lens, as I did for the meadowhawk dragonfly shots.
Heather - I'm not entirely satisfied with mine either. I think it needs more color. You can always keep tweaking it!
Nice shots of this beautiful odanate....
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