Western Pondhawk Thermoregulating

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Description

I encountered this female Western Pondhawk buried in some pond-side vegetation. It’s getting pretty warm in the Sonora Desert now (100° at that moment), and my best guess is that this dragonfly was sheltering from the sun. Many dragonfly and damselfly species start to thermoregulate at temperatures above 95°.

OM System OM-1 Mk 2, Postprocessing in Affinity Photo 2

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Beautiful job on the dragonfly, Russ, and she chose a great perch for you. Detail and composition are excellent.

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Russ, this is gorgeous. Fine detail, colours, and perch. Excellent look at the face.
Great work!

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A nice find, Russ, and he posed for you nicely. You captured some nice details by using f16 to get so much DOF. Well done.

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Russ: Kudos to you for this one. Good pose, good BG, good perch, good DOF, etc. Marvelous capture. >=))>

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Terrific composition showing wingspan and the face which is so sharp!