The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
These Familiar Bluets are abundant in my part of Arizona. On a typical day males arrive at the water mid-morning and mating comes to a peak around noon. These two males may be in competition with each other or may just be hanging out. Sometimes it’s hard to know what’s in the mind of a damselfly.
Specific Feedback
I’m interested in all of your comments. I’m especially interested in sharing natural history.
Technical Details
OM Systems OM-1 Mark II, Post-processing in Affinity
1/5000, F9, ISO 2000, 150mm, no flash
A very cool find, Russell. I really like the almost mirror image effect they created. I do find it interesting that it looks as if the one on our left has much more robust legs that the one on our right and there’s more white on them. We tend to think of individuals in the insect world as being pretty much identical, but this is a great demonstration that it isn’t so.
This is a very interesting behavior, Russell. Certainly not typical of competing males, where they hover and chase each other. I also expect that none of the “field guides” have enough detail to describe such behavior. That probably takes getting into the detailed literature on these Damselflies. In the large view, there is a distinct lack of detail especially in the wings, is this a large crop?
Hi Mark. This is a fairly large crop. Perhaps the real culprit here is that there was a lot of noise in the photograph. The light was subdued and I had my camera set for photographing insects in flight at 1/5000th shutter speed.
Russell: Looks like your dragonfly/damselfly season is off to a good start. Really interesting behavior and good DOF/Plane of focus management. Nicely done. >=))>
