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Title: Not C/L, but Natures Bi-Plane
Post by: Brian Massey on June 17, 2013, 01:40:48 PM

We had a visitor in our back yard today. Really a pretty thing.

Brian

Title: Re: Not C/L, but Natures Bi-Plane
Post by: Elwyn Aud on June 17, 2013, 04:17:01 PM

Beautiful! Simply amazing critters. Great photography too.

Title: Re: Not C/L, but Natures Bi-Plane
Post by: Larry Renger on June 17, 2013, 05:08:02 PM

How did you get it to pose for it'sportrait so long? Spray it with epoxy?

Title: Re: Not C/L, but Natures Bi-Plane
Post by: Brian Massey on June 17, 2013, 08:05:30 PM

Quote from: Larry Renger on June 17, 2013, 05:08:02 PM

How did you get it to pose for it'sportrait so long? Spray it with epoxy?

Dragon Flys have a habit of returning to the same place. As I inched closer, he (or she, never checked) would take off, fly around in a circle, then I would get a little closer to it's perch, and it would return. Did that several times and had the camera on the macro setting. It surprised me that it would keep coming right back even as I got close.

Brian

Title: Re: Not C/L, but Natures Bi-Plane
Post by: Jim Kraft on June 18, 2013, 07:42:38 AM

Fabulous pictures. That wing structure is really something even with a few holes in the trailing edge.

Title: Re: Not C/L, but Natures Bi-Plane
Post by: George on June 18, 2013, 08:34:33 AM

Must be the season, I also saw one yesterday...a blue one. They are beautiful creatures.

It's amazing how pretty and vivid their colors are. I read years ago that even though they have those huge legs, they can't walk. 

George