# Flame Skimmer on Patrol.

**URL:** <https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/flame-skimmer-on-patrol/46907>\
**Category:** Image Critiques\
**Tags:** macro-close-up\
**Created:** [June 8, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/flame-skimmer-on-patrol/46907 "2025-06-08T02:23:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Russell\_Carpenter](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/russell_carpenter/32/77777_2.png) [@Russell\_Carpenter](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Russell_Carpenter)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/flame-skimmer-on-patrol/46907/1 "2025-06-08T02:23:29Z")

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![P6030814-001 Cropped.jpg](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/3/c/3cde6ac74c96f98bd73eec5a5b1357e1b848f5f3.jpeg)

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### Description

The Flame Skimmer is a common dragonfly in the Southwest. You can find them on a perch, but it’s more entertaining to watch them patrolling the edge of a pond. These demented little rockets are super hard to capture with a camera, but occasionally it works.

OM System OM-1 MK 2.

### Specific Feedback

I am interested in all of your comments.

### Technical Details

 ![Screenshot 2025-06-07 at 7.01.49 PM](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/2/1/213359ab5f82694c90236b93de6e37cf89b69f46.png)

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**Author:** ![Gill\_Vanderlip](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/gill_vanderlip/32/54254_2.png) [@Gill\_Vanderlip](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Gill_Vanderlip)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 2:58am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/flame-skimmer-on-patrol/46907/2 "2025-06-08T02:58:23Z")

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Just No Words. Just amazing you caught this guy in Flight. What was your noise reduction … ISO 3200 at 1/2500 .. UN Real… WOW !!!

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**Author:** ![Bill\_Fach](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/bill_fach/32/78290_2.png) [@Bill\_Fach](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Bill_Fach)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/flame-skimmer-on-patrol/46907/3 "2025-06-08T11:47:38Z")

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Russ; Terrific capture. We have a few of these around here but they’re relatively rare. To get on in flight is wonderful. Top notch shot. \>=))\>

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**Author:** ![Dennis\_Plank](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/dennis_plank/32/27033_2.png) [@Dennis\_Plank](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Dennis_Plank)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/flame-skimmer-on-patrol/46907/4 "2025-06-08T16:09:48Z")

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Excellent, Russ. Really good detail in the skimmer, particularly for a flight shot.

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**Author:** ![Russell\_Carpenter](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/russell_carpenter/32/77777_2.png) [@Russell\_Carpenter](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Russell_Carpenter)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/flame-skimmer-on-patrol/46907/5 "2025-06-08T16:28:33Z")

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Hi Gill

The performance of modern sensors surprises me, too. Not long ago, ISOs of more than 200 were thought to be unwise.

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Freeman](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/shirley_freeman/32/11361_2.png) [@Shirley\_Freeman](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Shirley_Freeman)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/flame-skimmer-on-patrol/46907/6 "2025-06-09T17:53:27Z")

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A nice in flight capture, Russ. I still haven’t accomplished that. We are just starting to get dragonflies here in my yard. Some years we have an abundance of them. Maybe so this year and I will get that shot.

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**Author:** ![Diane\_Miller](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/diane_miller/32/27391_2.png) [@Diane\_Miller](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Diane_Miller)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/flame-skimmer-on-patrol/46907/7 "2025-06-13T23:58:25Z")

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Holy cow!! These guys are darts and don’t hover – I can’t imagine capturing one in flight! Super!