Daniel: I’ll just be lazy and ditto Kris. With so many frames you clearly must have been shooting in burst mode. Can you imagine trying to do this in the film era? I used to fill trash cans with rejected slides. I have used a tripod on dragonflies but only after I had some hand helds in the bank and only if it was coming back to the same perch. My Living Dangerously shots were taken from a tripod which allowed me a lot more precision but she was a very cooperative subject. Also, as you well know hand holding long lenses is difficult and there is so much less margin for error with camera movement, another great improvement in image stabilization that makes it even possible to consider such shots. All in all a pretty darn good effort on your part and hope you keep after it. >=))>