Posted on May 29, 2020
I was photographing this female Green Darner dragonfly that was busy laying eggs in a small pond. It spent a large amount of time doing this so I had plenty of time to photograph the activity. It covered a very large area in this fairly small pond. The featured image is a 2 image panorama to get the reflection of the Darner in the image also. The Darner seemed to be spreading the eggs in a very wide area around the small pond. I was using a Canon 400mm DO lens & some images were shot with an extension tube to focus this close on the female Darner dragonfly when it came too close for my minimum focus distance.





Category: Blog, Dragonflies, Favorite Locations, Insects, Nature Still Lifes, Panorama & Stacked Images, Stacked Images, yard & pond Tagged: Canon 400 f/4 DO lens, canon extension tube, Dragonflies, dragonfly, Dragonfly Panorama, Dragonflys, Green Darner Dragonfly, Green Darner Dragonfly laying eggs, Panorama
Posted on July 6, 2018
The Halloween Pennant is one of my favorite dragonflies so I like it when I find one (or more) to photograph. At my old home I had my own pond which was my combination macro & dragonfly studio along with several favorite National Wildlife Refuges with different varieties of dragonflies. So I am still exploring the local parks near my new condo for good dragonfly locations. I had the week off but the heat index was 110 degrees plus & minus all week so it was tough to get out to look for subjects to photograph. I did manage to get quite a variety earlier in the week and I am going through them.



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