Damsels I've known

[Don Burkett]

Nice contributions. The 300 f/4 is a great lens for these (wish I had one). Great backgrounds on #2 and #3. Good color in all. They are very nice as shown. If you want a couple on nits, maybe crop out the left on #2 to get rid of the non-sequencial stem and clone out what's left of the diaganol piece after the crop. Try tweaking your shadows and/or midtones slightly lighten and get a little better definition in the damsels. But as I said, good as shown and thanks for sharing.

[MarkP]

Thanks for the advice. I have cropped No.2 and will have a play around with the levels on them all as well.

[Dann Thombs]

On Azure Bluets, the 7th segment is usually only half black, and 8 & 9 are completely blue. The first looks more like a northern, and the second two more like forktails, but I can't be sure.

[Don Burkett]

Number 2 is now a much stronger presentation in my opinion. Great job.

[Don Burkett]

Here's 2 new ones for this little collection.


This is a Skimmer, Male Black Saddlebacks. Not the best frame, but he won't hold still and I staulked him for quite awhile so I took what I could get.





This I believe is a FM Meadowhawk. I have the full image but used this crop because you could start to see the detail in the eyes.

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

Some great macro images here.


Don, thanks for the tips you posted in this thread about 2 weeks ago, they're very helpful. I'm in the process of learning macro photography, thanks again.