Emerald Damselfly

[SKM]

This one was shot with my long macro set up - 300f4 and 1.4x, often useful when they are inaccessible positions, over the water and less chance of spooking

Stan

 

[Graham]

Lovely things these damsels, I like the shot but its a tad bright in places imo and maybe a crop on the right HS
Here I have the cousin to these, the "Southern green emerald" but with my eyes unless they move I have no chance of seeing them perched up inside a bush

 

[SKM]

Cheers Graham

you will know probably from seeing the southern version that they do tend to sparkle and checking the histogram it does look about right. When shooting with that background I had to shoot at -1 Ev to get it as dark as I have and toneing down any further results in loss of detail.

Agree probably could crop some more off the right

Stan

 

[Norkie]

Lovely creatures, well taken

 

[SKM]

thanks Jak