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The Oriental Darter has been sort of a jinx of mine up till this encounter. Although I have observed it at a few locations in Singapore and made several attempts to capture a proper flight sequence, I was never successful. It would usually remain on its perch the entire time of my many observations. It did the same for this encounter, that is until it decided to take off when my back was turned.
Having missed the take-off, the #EOSR3’s fully customizable buttons allowed me to change from static to flight setting in a split second. I was on the bird practically immediately as the brilliant Animal Eye Autofocus locked onto the eye and tracked it for the entire flight, after it landed to start swimming and only lost it when it went underwater. Even with such a smallish head and low contrast eye, the AF found and held on to it all the way. The 30fps frame-rate gave me many options me to pick and choose the perfect frame from the sequence. With such speed and accuracy, I now understand the tagline .
#RSystemExperience #CanonImagingAsia #CanonAsia #CanonSingapore #RF600mmF4
Oriental Darter
Hindhede Quarry
November 2021
Absolutely adore the Common Darters and always call them the "Smiley Faces". This one landed on a plant cane and stayed for quite some time.
The sun and the clouds in the late afternoon again caused some problems, mainly with this Darter, tried my best and i am happy with this one, i like the composition.
Male darter dragonfly on the neighbour's decking. There were two of these around ofteb fighting for dominance of the pond. They obviously survived the recent rainstorms. Natural light shots. Focus stacked using zerene stacker
A male Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum), seen and snapped today in Holywells Park, Ipswich. Full frame & hand held as always.
Easy to tell the difference between these and Common Darter - the Ruddy has all black legs whereas the Common has yellow striped and black legs.
Here is old Dennis dart SLF T553 HNH operated by Stagecoach on the route 2 to Camberley. Taken on 27/12/13 at Farnborough Kingsmead.
This male darter is drying its wings while perched on a tree. I had never seen a darter in a tree before – usually they are found sitting on a rock along the lake shore.
Dart
Bycatch during the Gamakatsu Team Series on the Gold Coast (Paradise Point) on 18th January, 2009. We caught 3 bream between me and my boater, for a total weight of 1.115kg - a poor showing of bream. The bream were quite shy and not very abundant, and we didn't catch nearly as many as we had hoped, so we didn't end anywhere near the top of the scoreboard.
Gear:
Shimano T-curve 702XL Spin
Shimano JDM Twinpower 2500 w/ 2500S spool
Sunline F.C. Rock 2lb
Berkley Powerbait 3" Bass Minnow in galaxia green (1/8oz TT jighead)
Darter dragonfly on my finger. Having got the dragonfly used to me being there, I persuaded it to walk onto my finger where it stayed for about 3 minutes whilst I took photographs. Natural light
Face Off!
Common Darter Dragonfly (Sympetrum striolatum) newly emerged from it's nymph stage still clinging on to it's former exoskeleton as first it's body elongates followed by the wings which are slowly unfurled and have body fluids pumped into them causing them to expand and then harden suitably enough for flight.......
African Darter (Anhinga rufa) perched upon a tree stump on the banks of the Victoria Nile.
Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda
Canon 5D |EF 100-400mm L | f/5.6 | 1/125 sec | ISO 200 | hand-held
For posterity. I had to sell this dart board a few days ago in preparation for the move across the country. It was sad, because I had always imagined that I'd bring it with me. So I thought I'd post a few pictures so that I can remember the good times... dartsing it up in my garage in Val Verde. I don't feel too bad about selling it though, as I bought it for $100, put $50 worth of parts on it, and then sold it for $400. I win...