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I'm taking a break in the Orchid-series :-)
Last friday I had the opportunity making some images of a young female Anax imperator (Emperor Dragonfly / Grote keizerlibel). Rather then showing the whole dragonfly, I choose to display some details. They turned out to be almost abstract images.
Image: Ekeren (Belgium) - 28/05/2010
© Johan Dierckx
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@AG: Thank you very much, AG. The details are indeed amazing. The more I look, the more I am wondered.
@Florence: Thank you Florence. It is a very slight crop, just to get the composition right and the lines straight. That was nearly impossible in the field.
@Photome: Dank je :-)
@Monique: Ik vond het eens een andere benadering dan alles er in zijn geheel op te zetten. (Die foto's heb ik ook wel genomen.) De gelegenheid was er - dus ruimte voor experiment. Mijten kwam ik niet tegen bij dit exemplaar. Het was ook nog maar een net uitgeslopen exemplaar, dus veel kans om al mijten op te lopen had ze nog niet gehad ...
@♏arleen: Dank je, Marleen. Het is inderdaad niet met een 65 genomen. Ik heb lichtjes bijgesneden, maar voornamelijk om de compositie recht te trekken - dat was in het veld bijna onbegonnen werk om meteen goed te krijgen. Ze zat laag in de vegetatie en er zaten continu een hoop gras- en rietsprieten in de weg... Werken met de mogelijkheden van dat moment he ...
@k@: Thank you very much, K@.
@Patricia: Dank je, Patricia. het was een unieke gelegenheid om een libel eens van zo close te bekijken en te fotograferen.
@Daniel: Thank you very much, Daniel.
@KriKridesign: Indeed :-) I showed it to some teachers at school. Maybe they will use it in their lessons next year on insect eyes :-)
@Joke: Dank je, Joke
@Loner: Thank you very much !
@Dutch: It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity I guess. This female was still drying the wings. That way these dragonflys are not mobile ... They just can't fly that way. So I was able to get realy close and make a whole series of details. Normally you don't have the time to do that ...
@Julie Brown: I even had too much working distance ... This dragonfly was sitting very low in the vegetation, so, lots of distracting grass was getting in the way ... But I love that lens :-)
@Ralph: Dank je, Ralph. Ik had het geluk dat dit net uitgeslopen vrouwtje nog natte vleugels had en dus niet echt ver weg kon :-) Op die manier dan je ze rustig tot heel close benaderen ...
@Mascha: Dank je :-)
@daniela scharnowski: And again, Thx! You gave me a lot of reply-work again this evening, but I appreciate all your comments.
