From yesterday at my favorite dragonfly pond. The only options were flying Blue and Green Darners. I was trying to frame these two in flight without success when they darted off. I had both eyes open to make it easier to get them in the frame as they moved and I saw them disappear into the reeds on the left, but something told me they hadn’t exactly disappeared. After a minute I found them! I was inadvertently zoomed back to 600mm and had to crop quite a bit.
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Technical Details
RF 100-500. Minor tweaks in LR, into PS for Topaz Denoise (Low Light defaults), some BG simplification and a little edge burning. Cropped to 30% of original pixels.
More insect sex? It was my year for it, too, but didn’t get my dragons in such a natural setting. They decided to display on the deck railing, lol. Good sharpness and detail and the colors look natural. Shadows of the wings on the reeds are nice, too. I’ll have to put up my damselfly porno.
Diane, you really captured the moment with excellent details in both DF’s. The colors of the DF’s and the scenery around them complement each other. Very well done.
Thanks, @Kris_Smith and @Shirley_Freeman. I’m wondering if they’re in a hurry to pass on their genes before the season ends, but out here it’s two months before any chance of the first (light) frost and early rain (if we have ANY rain…) But maybe their timers are set more globally and not so specific to our climate? Or maybe I just haven’t been paying attention. But I also got Green Darners mating (will post tomorrow) so I think it’s mating season.
Thanks, everyone! And thanks @Shirley_Freeman for including this in the yearly picks! (Should I thank all the editors? I’m not even sure how to find a list of all of you, but everyone appreciates the work you do to add a sprinkle of nice surprises when we browse through the many offerings here.)
I’m very honored to be in the company I’m in here!!
Hi Diane, Congrats on the Year End Editor’s Pick! Im afraid to look up the biology as to why one of those darners is connected to the back of the head of the other, will just leave it as a mystery of nature. Very nicely captured.
