DragonFly

Willy · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:42 am **(#1)**

Well I tried again, and well I would call this a sucess for a pocket shooter

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Very nice Willy.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

Good pic for a phone camera, but a compact camera can do a lot better. Looks like you took the picture from far away and cropped it a lot afterwards. You can get close to dragonflies if you progress slowly. They may fly away but if you stay put and wait a bit they will come back at the exact same spot (they have their habits...).

Now this is what I get when I crop my dragonfly pictures:

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(of course I have a better camera and a vastly better lens on it

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molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

he/she sure is hairy.
The wings look like you could partition them off and make stained glass out of them.

gerard82 · **Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2011 12:52 pm **(#5)**

@molly
In Dutch we have several names for them one is "glazemaker" which is glazier in English.
Gerard.

GnuTux · **Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2011 1:10 pm **(#6)**

Cool images!

Your macro shot is excellent, ofnuts. Details are bright and clear.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

molly wrote:

he/she sure is hairy.
The wings look like you could partition them off and make stained glass out of them.

From this point of view I have much better in store:

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ZioDark · **Joined:** Jun 24, 2011 **Posts:** 22

Awesome Dragonfly pictures

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

This is dragon fly taken by ofnuts. I just couldn't resist making the wing look like stained glass.
stained-glass dragon :teeth

cecilia · **Posted:** Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:12 pm **(#10)**

wow, that's lovely. I'm jealous!

Rod · **Joined:** May 16, 2010 **Posts:** 16023

Nice Molly!

A dragonfly never looked so beautiful.

I took some pictures of a katydid hatching out of its shell when we were camping.We were out investigating our site one day when we noticed many, many katydid shells hanging on the tree trunks.I couldn't believe how many there were.It was fantastic.Still have to load them on the laptop to a flash drive though.When i do i will share them with you guys.

akky · **Joined:** Apr 09, 2011 **Posts:** 1764

Beautiful photos!!

Willy · **Posted:** Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:55 pm **(#13)**

Wow ofnuts beat me there

And yes mine was taken from far away he was in the middle of the garden and everything grows together there and moving through moves a lot of things and it took me like 20 minutes to get that close, and then he left