Saturday, July 12, 2008

On The Wing: Stream Bluet Damselfly




This morning while fishing my favorite lake I found large numbers of dragonflies and damselflies flitting about.

The tiny Damselflies were hovering low over the lake’s surface. They would allow me to approach within a few feet with the boat. The 100-400mm lens set at 400mm allowed me to capture this image of a hovering Stream Bluet Damselfly.

I found it nearly impossible to auto-focus on these slim creatures if there was anything in the background other than open water.

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11 comments:

This Is My Blog - fishing guy said...

Salty: What a great capture, I had one land on my shirt last week on the boat but couldn't get to the camera.

bcmomtoo said...

Good job. I love that blue color.

I can see why these would be hard to focus on. There's not much to them.

Christy said...

Very beautiful shot. I understand that focusing thing all to well. I rely on my autofocus to much but I really stink at manual focus so I just have to power through.

Jane Hards Photography said...

Very delicate little capture.

Kerri Farley said...

WOW! You caught it in flight. How FABULOUS!!

Michele said...

That's fantastic! Beautiful!!
Very impressive!!
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lv2scpbk said...

Nice photo. I've never captured one of these. I like the black again, it makes it show up. Come and see my allegators.

EG CameraGirl said...

Cool photo! I LOVE dragonflies and damselflies!

Shionge said...

I love dragonflies and it is a pity that with so many buildings now I hardly could see any.

So yep, very happy to see that you have captured it beautifully ;)

Misty DawnS said...

Great capture! I ran into the same auto-focusing issue the other day when I was at my pond trying to get a photo of a damselfly.

Tom said...

I never have any luck taking pictures of these things.. They always seem to take flight as soon as I get near.. ha!