Large Red Damselfly (female)

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Large Red Damselfly (female)

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Warnham Local Nature Reserve, 04 May 2008

Canon Powershot G9
ISO 80, 1/200 sec, F4
Graham

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Post by Ken Ramos »

Whoa! Really nice and sharp for the most part, love the comp. Doing fine with the G9 eh, Graham. :wink:

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Post by Erland R.N. »

Great display of the female. The tip of the abdomen looks slightly out of focus, being a bit closer to the camera.
I would not touch the plant it's perched on :D

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Post by Adrian »

beautiful damsel, excellent capture.

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Post by Harold Gough »

The wing venation, out of focus in many such images, is captured well.

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Post by beetleman »

Love the colors on the abdomen. Reminds me of a Coral Or Scarlet King snake.
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Post by gpmatthews »

Some more large reds to add to the thread:
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Large Red Damsel - male in my garden

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Pair of Large Red Damsels - local nature reserve
Graham

Though we lean upon the same balustrade, the colours of the mountain are different.

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Post by jaharris1001 »

whoa is right,, beautifull images here,, and taken with a G9 ? Very nice !! :wink:
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Post by Harold Gough »

Superb. The well-placed shadow of the male is a bonus.

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Post by rjlittlefield »

These are very nice, Graham. :D

I like images 1 & 3 just the way they are.

The background of image 2 has a pattern of straight lines with a harsh bokeh that I find distracting. I played a little with blur-and-mask in Photoshop, and found that I liked it better with the background filtered Gaussian Blur, 7 pixels. Just a thought, your tastes may differ!

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