Dragonflies and Damselflies
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The Dutch isles in the north turned out to have a decent population of dragonflies!
This one bumped its eye and dented it:
An undamaged one:
The larger ones were very skittish, I only managed to get ground shots:
And a red one:
All with the R7+100-500L
This one bumped its eye and dented it:
An undamaged one:
The larger ones were very skittish, I only managed to get ground shots:
And a red one:
All with the R7+100-500L
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Beautiful.
I, too, realized that the willow spreadwings have already appeared.
I thought, they'd be a bit early, but I checked that they're right on time.
Maximum is end of July throughout August.
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A few weeks ago I planted bamboo sticks in my garden to serve as dragonfly perches and yesterday a dragon used on for eating its catch for a few hours. The stills are in my 'to edit' queue, but I did process the movies already:
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It was relaxed enough that I could setup a tripod and use 180L for filming very close to MFD. I found another "phenomenon" in the R7 AF, it would give a nice blue focus confirmed box, but be focused a milimeter behind the intended plane, everything in the box would be OOF. Using the lens ring to move the focus to MFD would make it refocus correctly. This was with a backlit subject with the camera in direct sunlight in 30 degree C weather, so I can't really get worked up about it
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Dragonfly grooming itself
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It was relaxed enough that I could setup a tripod and use 180L for filming very close to MFD. I found another "phenomenon" in the R7 AF, it would give a nice blue focus confirmed box, but be focused a milimeter behind the intended plane, everything in the box would be OOF. Using the lens ring to move the focus to MFD would make it refocus correctly. This was with a backlit subject with the camera in direct sunlight in 30 degree C weather, so I can't really get worked up about it
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widow skimmer (libellula luctuosa)
iPhone photo species ID is phenomenal... (I wouldn't have known it
)
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Be careful
You could become addicted to it 
I know what I'm talking about
Good shots, by the way
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Managed to get some banded demoiselles IF during their typical flight behaviour during territory defence.
R6m2, RF100-500L+Ext. @420, f/11, 1/4000, ISO3200
R6m2, RF100-500L+Ext. @420, f/11, 1/4000, ISO3200
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And finally the stills. It was great to have a dragonfly modelling for over 2 hours, it allowed me to experiment with using a ring flash, shading it with a white cloth to avoid sun hotspots clipping the highlights, trying funny angles and finally using a tripod.
You can see a bit of its meal when zooming in:
A combination of the EF180L and RF100-500L on an R7.
And a video of it chewing:
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You can see a bit of its meal when zooming in:
A combination of the EF180L and RF100-500L on an R7.
And a video of it chewing:
Dragonfly chewing
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Now this is what I call a dream holiday beach.
Hundreds of thousands of dragonflies swarm beachgoers
Social media videos show the harmless insects invading a beach in Rhode Island.
www.bbc.co.uk
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