Suprise Discovery - _TNY_9952
Here's one from an afternoon trip to Åva-Stensjödal, trying to shoot demoiselles. I got some shots, but it didn't really work out the way I wanted and while walking through high grass next to the creek a saw a couple of spreadwing damselflies here and there.
As a consolation prize, I tried shooting one of them, thinking it was a common spreadwing (Lestes sponsa) - but when editing, the way the second segment of the abdomen is only partially blue, it turns out this instead is a male roboust spreadwing (Lestes dryas) - A species I believe I haven't shot before!
I think the colours came out just plain great here and the detail is awesome on the compound eyes too if you zoom in. I suppose the moral of the story is that sometimes consolation prizes can be just as good.
Suprise Discovery - _TNY_9952
Here's one from an afternoon trip to Åva-Stensjödal, trying to shoot demoiselles. I got some shots, but it didn't really work out the way I wanted and while walking through high grass next to the creek a saw a couple of spreadwing damselflies here and there.
As a consolation prize, I tried shooting one of them, thinking it was a common spreadwing (Lestes sponsa) - but when editing, the way the second segment of the abdomen is only partially blue, it turns out this instead is a male roboust spreadwing (Lestes dryas) - A species I believe I haven't shot before!
I think the colours came out just plain great here and the detail is awesome on the compound eyes too if you zoom in. I suppose the moral of the story is that sometimes consolation prizes can be just as good.