Forum: Photography

Subject: Day of the DragonFly

L8RDAZE opened this issue on Jun 26, 2002 ยท 14 posts

L8RDAZE posted Wed, 26 June 2002 at 5:39 PM

On my lunchbreak I found this area along one of the walkin paths where it seems all these beautiful dragonflies are hangin out....When they sunlight hits them, they burst with this almost neon blue-green metallic coloring. I was just fascinated by them! Here's a few of the shots I took. If anyone has any advice on takin' pix of insects (which really interests me) please share...I'm all...er... eyes! L8r!





L8RDAZE posted Wed, 26 June 2002 at 5:41 PM

Up close and personal!





L8RDAZE posted Wed, 26 June 2002 at 5:43 PM

These leaves reminded me of a helipad cause the dragonflies would hover then land on 'em!





L8RDAZE posted Wed, 26 June 2002 at 5:46 PM

Another shot...just a different angle...love that color! Well that's all folks! Let me know what ya think! L8r!





Misha883 posted Wed, 26 June 2002 at 6:26 PM

Looks to me like you are doing a fine job.

SueO posted Wed, 26 June 2002 at 6:33 PM

Great shots!!!! They are damselflies, by the way. When the wing are swept up, as opposed to out sideways, they are damsels.

jacoggins posted Wed, 26 June 2002 at 7:08 PM

neat shots and thanks SueO for the entomology lesson!

Michelle A. posted Wed, 26 June 2002 at 7:51 PM

So that's what they are!....I have a few pics of these myself (although not anywhere near as good as these) and I wasn't sure what they were. These are great shots l8r!

I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com

bevchiron posted Thu, 27 June 2002 at 12:31 AM

These are really good shots, I hope I can get shots this good when the start to appear here!!

elusive.chaos

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star...." (Nietzsche)

Antoonio posted Thu, 27 June 2002 at 5:01 AM

Beautiful shots. Magical insects. ...that reminds me my own dragonfly shots. I'll post new thread L8RD, take a peek. .n

L8RDAZE posted Thu, 27 June 2002 at 6:50 AM

Hey Sue...thanx for indentifyin them...and to think I wanted to be an Entomogist when I was a kid HAHA!!! This was a fun learnin experience, Thanx for the feeback!...I Found out that even though my digicam has a 10x optical zoom, even that has limits!!! Going to start researching additional lenses now to add to my photo "arsenal"! Can't wait for my next bug hunt! L8r!





PunkClown posted Thu, 27 June 2002 at 8:04 AM

Cool, nice shots, I wish I could capture insects like that L8R! I like the metallic green of his...uhh, abdomen-thingy! (there I go again with the technical terms) :-)>

starshuffler posted Thu, 27 June 2002 at 2:02 PM

Wow, awesome shadow on the helipad shot... thanks for sharing these, I love em! :-) (*

randyrives posted Thu, 27 June 2002 at 2:05 PM

Nice pics. I spent 30 mins or more one day trying to snap some photos of a dragonfly. But He would not stay still long enough. --Randy R