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This shot took forever to get. The dragonfly kept leaving and then returning... all of the while, I'm getting a stiff neck and half-stooping in an awkward pose to be in the right place. Finally, I got the shot I wanted, with the wings in focus, and now I'm not totally sure I even care for this shot. Your opinion?
An amazing feat of design and engineering. As delicate as they are, you wonder how they can survive with how they are used. Notice the differences in locations especially on the leading edges and wingtips. An old photo.
The Dragonflies were in full swing this afternoon, the first day I've seen them this Summer. It was scorching hot and windy when I took a series of close-ups with the BlackBerry from all kinds of contorted positions in the front garden. I can't believe the detail in this one. Dragonflies are prehistoric insects dating back at least 250 million years.
Here's a blurb and a link on Dragonflies in Minnesota:
"Dragonflies and their close relatives called damselflies are ancient insects and prehistoric reminders of the age of the dinosaurs. Enormous dragonflies with a wingspread up to 30 inches across were part of the Paleozoic landscape about 300 million years ago. The largest insect ever known was a dragonfly called Meganeura monyi. It had a wingspread of 30 inches and a body 18 inches long. It lived until about 250 million years ago and then became extinct."
-From the MN DNR website:
www.dnr.state.mn.us/eco/nongame/projects/dragonflies.html
BlackBerry Shots
Golden Valley, Minnesota
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dragonfly wing detail. Focus stacked from 3 images. Vignette was from the Raynox DCR-250.
Btw, it looks rather swanky when you View On Black.
I don't talk much about my beliefs to random people, but my path leans toward the Native American beliefs in that of animal spirits and guides.
Up till Wednesday, October 14th, I never could capture a dragonfly with my camera. I was able to get a shot of one at the ren faire, from a distance, but I couldn't get close enough to get a decent shot. When I saw this dragonfly, I was able to get these macro shots of it but, till I saw it and it didn't fly away, I wasn't motivated to take photos. A friend of mine passed away this week, rather suddenly and unexpectedly. We had several common interests and one of them was photography.
After making the off-hand comment that maybe this dragonfly was a "sign" from Chris, I looked it up in some of my books. Along with the stuff I already knew (how they exist in two realms- air and water- and the emotional definitions of them and such), one paragraph read: "Some Native American tribes believe dragonflies to be the souls of the dead..." I damn near cried all over again. And it seems, I may have a new spirit animal.