Saturday, June 11, 2011

Mystery dragonfly

RESTING DRAGONFLY, GREEN, MICHIGAN, JUNE 9, 2011

Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-DA 55-300 at 300mm
1/1600 sec. f11
ISO 1600

The other evening a swarm of scores of dragonflies swooped around the trees and bushes in front of our cabin on Lake Superior, and this one held on long enough to a twig for me to get its portrait. There are dozens of dragonfly species, and I have no idea which one this is. If its back had been to the camera, it probably would have been possible to compare the markings with those in a bug book.

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