Late season darter dragonfly

Lord Vetinari

Found this darter dragonfly on the old bench by my pond the other day.
Natural light. Sony A6000/sigma 105mm OS. Focus stacks using zerene.

Brian V.

2 shot panorama

IMAGEMAX

Thanks for posting, Lord V. Pretty awesome, all of them!

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Fine series. The panorama is awesome. The whole body is within DOF.

Lord Vetinari

@IMAGEMAX said:
Thanks for posting, Lord V. Pretty awesome, all of them!

@Jørgen_Bjerring said:
Fine series. The panorama is awesome. The whole body is within DOF.

Thanks for looking and commenting Imagemax and Jorgen - appreciated

Brian V

Cavalier

Awesome shots Brian. It appears that he is warming his wings - do dragonflies do that? Or is he just on his last little leg.
I was trying to pick a favorite shot, but they are all uniquely beautiful.

Lord Vetinari

@Cavalier said:
Awesome shots Brian. It appears that he is warming his wings - do dragonflies do that? Or is he just on his last little leg.
I was trying to pick a favorite shot, but they are all uniquely beautiful.

Thanks for the comments Jo.
Dragonflies cannot fold their wings down so they always stick out like that. Having said that he was sitting in a sunny place and probably is reaching the end of his life span.
Brian v.