Blue Darner Dragonfly - Green Water and Light
by Belinda Greb
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Blue Darner Dragonfly - Green Water and Light
Artist
Belinda Greb
Medium
Photograph - Photograph, Photography, Photographs
Description
I went back to Hidden Lake, where last summer I had some luck capturing flying Blue Darner Dragonflies, and I got lucky with a few shots this time as well. There's quite a lot of dragonflies around this lake during this summer, but these darners never seem to land although they do hover. The light allowed me a fast shutter speed. The difficulty, of course, is trying to focus and not lose sight which is difficult with a telephoto.
That area to get down the lake is quite marshy. People have laid out bark or tree trunks that you step across. I tried to walk around what looks like a grassy field and started to sink and after watching my dog run across it and see it bounce, I decided to be more careful. As it was, I lost a lens cap, but thankfully not a lens!
I added a linen texture to the background of this image, which I created scanning in some linen photo paper.
Copyrighted - Belinda Greb
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Nature, animals, beauty have been a source of nourishment throughout my life. Photography allows me to capture, interpret, and share that world of wonder I see about me, and sometimes use what I capture as an inspiration to create something new, by incorporating other exposures, textures or brushwork.
I currently reside in Oregon, an environment rich in nature's graces. I have lived in California and New York, too, and everywhere there is a world of beauty around us, if we care to take the time and look for it.
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August 20th, 2013
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JOHN TELFER
Belinder, This is just an amazing capture and photograph to have caught this dragonfly in mid flight, simply amazing photo, fav, voted and google promoted