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This is a Common Darter male.

The green background is the water of a large pond.

I normally like to use manual focus because AF tends to focus on the background. However, these insects move around so much and so quickly that I had to use centre-spot AF and aim very accurately. The dragons do hover very briefly.

Olympus EM-1 (aperture priority), Panasonic 100 - 400mm Leica DG Vario-Elmar at 364mm 1/500 at f8 ISO 640.

The first image is uncropped and the second is cropped. I got only the one good frame.

Harold

Sep 13, 2022 at 05:23 AM

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Congrats Harold on this accomplishment! Lovely colors too.

Karl

Sep 13, 2022 at 09:38 AM

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Karl Witt wrote:
Congrats Harold on this accomplishment! Lovely colors too.

Karl

Thanks, Carl.

This is one of the red Darters. The other species present is blood red, images to follow soon.

Harold

Sep 14, 2022 at 02:32 PM

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Big Congratulations Harold.

Not easily done at all.
neat shot.

Birdie

Sep 14, 2022 at 02:37 PM

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birdied wrote:
Big Congratulations Harold.

Not easily done at all.
neat shot.

Birdie

Thanks, Birdie.

I have found some more, in various folders in which the images have been left unprocessed.

Harold

Sep 14, 2022 at 03:08 PM


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