Summertime, Pt. 4 - _TNY_2907
I had a pretty sweet summer vacation in 2021. While central Europe had catastrophic levels of rain, we up here in Sweden had nothing but sun and warm weather.
This obviously led to lot of time spent by the lake. In our case, lake Öjesjön outside Härnösand, Sweden, where I not only could enjoy amazingly warm water, but also take breaks, go up and get the camera and walk around in the water and shoot a couple of species of beetles - and these guys.
This is a male large redeye (Erythromma najas), also called the red-eyed damselfly. Only the males have these amazingly red eyes and there were loads of them to chase for me.
Unfortunately, the swaying of the reeds and lily pads on the water made it necessary to use a pretty small aperture to properly freeze the motion as the bright sunlight otherwise would've lit the subject enough to create motion blur (this way the scene is practically all black except for the fraction of time of the flash duration). This means the background becomes dark as there is nothing to reflect the flash light back from there which though cool in its own way, definitely doesn't convey a summery feeling.
Parts 1 through 3 is a different specimen at the same location on the same visit.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51404426909/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51905805000/
Part 3 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52364162059/
Summertime, Pt. 4 - _TNY_2907
I had a pretty sweet summer vacation in 2021. While central Europe had catastrophic levels of rain, we up here in Sweden had nothing but sun and warm weather.
This obviously led to lot of time spent by the lake. In our case, lake Öjesjön outside Härnösand, Sweden, where I not only could enjoy amazingly warm water, but also take breaks, go up and get the camera and walk around in the water and shoot a couple of species of beetles - and these guys.
This is a male large redeye (Erythromma najas), also called the red-eyed damselfly. Only the males have these amazingly red eyes and there were loads of them to chase for me.
Unfortunately, the swaying of the reeds and lily pads on the water made it necessary to use a pretty small aperture to properly freeze the motion as the bright sunlight otherwise would've lit the subject enough to create motion blur (this way the scene is practically all black except for the fraction of time of the flash duration). This means the background becomes dark as there is nothing to reflect the flash light back from there which though cool in its own way, definitely doesn't convey a summery feeling.
Parts 1 through 3 is a different specimen at the same location on the same visit.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51404426909/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51905805000/
Part 3 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52364162059/