A Darner for AzRich

[Glasseye]

A Damselfly from my mornings River Wye walk a female Agrion splendens


Andy

[Frank Footer]

Nice work. Sharp image and I like all the "green".

Did he care that you were so close? How long did he pose?

[Glasseye]

Thanks Frank,
I was about 2ft away from her, she was using that blade of grass to reland on to eat the midges and small flies she was flying off to catch and return with.

:cheers:
Andy

[AzRich]

Wow! Emerald Green!

What resource do you use to look them up? I've got a shot of a blue/black one eating a silverfish which was pretty cool.

Love those greens, sheesh!

[Igor]

Nice one Andy. Greens are relatively rare here. Blues are more popular :)

[HairyHaggis]

Hi Andy, what lens were you using?

[Glasseye]

Wow! Emerald Green!

What resource do you use to look them up? I've got a shot of a blue/black one eating a silverfish which was pretty cool.

Love those greens, sheesh!

Cheers Rich,
I've been a specie recorder in the West Midlands for the past 30 years and have a 200+ library collection of reference books for virtually any specie identification, for UK, Europe, Africa, Western States-USA, Egypt,Israel & Jordan and many other places i've been fortunate enough to visit on my photographic trips. I've also been working on a Sandwell Valley dragonfly publication for the past 5years hopefully it will go into print next year fingers crossed :righton:

Andy

[Glasseye]

Nice one Andy. Greens are relatively rare here. Blues are more popular :)

Thanks Igor, I still don't seem to do the D2x resized images justice.
There are over a dozen specie of blue tailed in Europe but only 2 specie of the larger green damels this specie frequents slow moving muddy bottomed rivers. The other preferes gravel bottomed streams. The females are green the males are emerald blue. I'm posting a male later.

Andy

[Glasseye]

Hi Andy, what lens were you using?

Hi, The one and only 105 micro nikkor AF 2.8 f22 manual focus 2x SB800's attached to the camera. D2x 100 iso

Andy

[globug]

So beauiful, delicate, sharp...with the 105? can my 105 be able to do this? :) :troutsmac

[Melody]

Oh my goodness an emeral blue bug I can't wait to see that!(I really can't believe I'm even thinking of waiting to see a bug period) :rofl:

btw my 105 doesn't do this, of course I think I've used it once since I bought it, maybe that's a small portion of the problem, uh the other part needs more work! :lol:

Melody

[Glasseye]

So beauiful, delicate, sharp...with the 105? can my 105 be able to do this? :) :troutsmac
Many thanks
No Problemo, mine is over ten years old, and I've never heard of a bad one yet. In a recent macro test report it was still the best 105 being produced, Nikon haven't changed it in fifteen years, ''If it aint broke dont fix it'' :righton:

Andy

[Glasseye]

Oh my goodness an emeral blue bug I can't wait to see that!(I really can't believe I'm even thinking of waiting to see a bug period) :rofl:

btw my 105 doesn't do this, of course I think I've used it once since I bought it, maybe that's a small portion of the problem, uh the other part needs more work! :lol:

Melody

Hi Melody, shame on you, the 105 micro is a little stunner of a lens, give it a blast this week end I'm sure you'll be impressed.

Cheers
Andy

[AzRich]

Andy,

if you get a chance check out my pbase site. I'm always hunting dragonflies and darners.

We, like Igor, have a lot of the blue/black darners. I'd love to be able to put their scientific names up on the site. I mean, that would impress somebody :)

[Glasseye]

Andy,

if you get a chance check out my pbase site. I'm always hunting dragonflies and darners.

We, like Igor, have a lot of the blue/black darners. I'd love to be able to put their scientific names up on the site. I mean, that would impress somebody :)

Sorry Rich, missed this one,

I'm away at present and only have ''snail pace'' dial up on my laptop. when I get back I will look out my Western State D'fly data & check out your site.

Andy