Thar be dragons!

DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
edited July 25, 2006 in Holy Macro
Shot in RAW and converted to jpg using Elements 4. Minimal post processing and no cropping.

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C&C always welcome :):
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  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2006
    Very, very nice! You've been posting some really great stuff! Love the colors of these dragons...nice backgrounds. thumb.gif
  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2006
    Loved colors excellent work
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2006
    saurora wrote:
    Very, very nice! You've been posting some really great stuff! Love the colors of these dragons...nice backgrounds. thumb.gif

    You're very kind -thanks for the props! :):
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2006
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    Loved colors excellent work

    Thanks Awais! :):
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  • boogieboogie Registered Users Posts: 553 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2006
    Oh WOW purple dragons! Love the "no cropping" you achieved. iloveyou.gif
  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2006
    boogie wrote:
    Oh WOW purple dragons! Love the "no cropping" you achieved. iloveyou.gif


    Thanks Boogie! I've convinced myself that there is another behavior that works to my advantage -eating. If a dragon is actively hunting from a perch then it will return to the same place over and over. They act like an ambush predator, waiting for dinner to fly close to them. Since this guy had a good place in the chow line he didn't want to give it up, so I was able to get within 8 to 10 inches of him...
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  • boogieboogie Registered Users Posts: 553 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2006
    Dalantech wrote:
    Thanks Boogie! I've convinced myself that there is another behavior that works to my advantage -eating. If a dragon is actively hunting from a perch then it will return to the same place over and over. They act like an ambush predator, waiting for dinner to fly close to them. Since this guy had a good place in the chow line he didn't want to give it up, so I was able to get within 8 to 10 inches of him...

    Good thinking on your part...and what exactly is the food source?
  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2006
    Dalantech wrote:
    Shot in RAW and converted to jpg using Elements 4. Minimal post processing and no cropping.
    C&C always welcome :):

    I love the colours of the Dragons you post Dalantech, I'm still jealous that you find so many of them to photograph rolleyes1.gif Skippy (Australia)
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited July 25, 2006
    boogie wrote:
    Good thinking on your part...and what exactly is the food source?

    Small flies, mosquitoes, etc. Anything that's small and flies is fast food :D
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited July 25, 2006
    Skippy wrote:
    I love the colours of the Dragons you post Dalantech, I'm still jealous that you find so many of them to photograph rolleyes1.gif Skippy (Australia)

    Lago d'Averno is kinda unique, in that there is a bike path around the lake. It's both blessing and curse: Dragons like to land on and around the path cause it's right next to the water -so finding them is easy. But if I had a dollar for every time a jogger scared one off right as I was about to press the shutter release I'd be able to afford some new kit... umph.gif
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited July 25, 2006
    What an amazingly coloured DF- beautifully captured :)
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited July 25, 2006
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    What an amazingly coloured DF- beautifully captured :)
    Brian V.

    Thanks Brian! :):
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  • pyanezpyanez Registered Users Posts: 212 Major grins
    edited July 25, 2006
    Fantastic - I though I had seen every dragon color out there - never seen anything like these - where were you?

    Thanks for posting.
  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited July 25, 2006
    pyanez wrote:
    Fantastic - I though I had seen every dragon color out there - never seen anything like these - where were you?

    Thanks for posting.

    Hopefully I can get this Google map thing to work, try this link: http://maps.smugmug.com/?feedType=geoUser&Data=dalantech&Latitude=40.8365737643&Longitude=14.0796661377&zoom=6

    Edit: OK, it works :)

    There are only 2 tags on that map. The top one (Lago d'Averno) is where I shoot dragons, and the bottom tag is where I go for butterflies and bees. Just below the botom tag is a town named Bacoli and that's where I live :)
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