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Dragonfly in flight

Postby thehikingdude on Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:13 pm

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Postby Glen on Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:16 pm

Great capture with what I assume is the 70-300 :D
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Postby thehikingdude on Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:20 pm

How did you ever guess? :wink: Heavily cropped of course.

Yep, it was one of the few times I put it on. Boy was it worth carrying all those miles for just this one shot.

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Postby Glen on Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:53 pm

Jeff , your technique with it to catch a dragonfly in flight must be something :D
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Postby leek on Mon Aug 29, 2005 7:02 pm

Well done Jeff... I've tried hard to catch one of those guys in flight and it ain't easy...
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Postby phillipb on Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:42 pm

Are you sure that's not a photoshopped helicopter? :D
Seriously though, that's a really great capture.
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Postby Dargan on Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:47 pm

IT is my desktop picture of the week. Congratulations on taking such an interesting image.
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Postby bago100 on Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:51 pm

Brilliant photo Jeff

My car windscreen and radiator catches lots of dragonflies in flight :D

No need to hike miles. hehe Come on over :lol:

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Postby avkomp on Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:26 pm

good catch, those guys aint easy to get either

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Postby thehikingdude on Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:25 am

Wow, this flying guy should be very happy with his new found popularity. I believe he was posing for me. :wink:

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Postby petal666 on Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:04 am

While it is a great capture of a small, fast moving subject, I'd rather be seeing his face that his ass :)
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Postby Willy wombat on Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:13 pm

petal666 wrote:While it is a great capture of a small, fast moving subject, I'd rather be seeing his face that his ass :)


I agree :)

But nice capture (tricky). Well done.
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Postby elffinarts on Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:16 pm

that is a fantastic shot. makes me want to sit out in the yard and hope for similar luck before the mosquito season really kicks in.
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