Barman's Blips

By barman58

There, be Dragons!!

Have been attempting to capture an in-flight shot of a Male Emperor Dragonfly for a little while now.

Today I actually got a little closer to achieving this. with this shot, (and some others Here).

I have always thought bird flight shots are difficult, which of course they are, but the emperor dragonfly takes this to a new level.

You need good light to get suitable camera settings, which means that the dragonfly is warm and thus extra energetic, plus it rarely even slows down, (they do hover at times but that would be cheating to take the shot then).
Add to this the size factor meaning that the relative motion is quite high across the frame.

Always after the easy shot, that's me :)

Still not quite there yet, not helped by having to shoot into the light, but it's getting there :)

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