Dragonflies

I was raking the grass one afternoon, and I noticed a few dragonflies were attracted to the grass. A few days later, I went to the edge of the woods where we dispose of the grass.  I saw some more dragonflies, and decided to go get my camera. I got my camera and went back. I wasn't worried about the dragonflies leaving because there were so many. They were just clinging on to the heaps of dead grass. I came closer and closer, to see if they would fly away. Nope, they were too busy doing whatever they do.  

I got this one on a flower weed. I came closer and closer and it didn't move (which was good on my case). Either way, I had my big lens on, so I could stand farther and still zoom in. This type of dragonfly is called the blue-fronted dancer (argia apicalis). 

I admit, I cheated on this picture. My camera could have never zoomed in that much. Or I don't know how. I just cropped up another picture so that it would zoom in like this. I was glad that the picture was still very clear after cropping. Some pictures have very poor resolution and becomes grainy if you zoom in. Oh and this picture is spiced up a bit. A little contrast, highlights, temperature, shadows, and saturation. 

Is it there? Is it not? I thought this picture was really cool. You can describe what's going on in two ways: a dragonfly unfocused or of dead grass. I got by being too close to the dragonfly. I wanted to zoom in as much as I can, but the camera couldn't focus any more, so it started to focus on the grass back there. 

I cheated on this one too :( Cropped a different picture, just like the other one. Only because I had no way of getting a closer, clearer view of the insect. And I think this looks really good. The detail of the grassy weed thing and the dragonfly. 

This is of a different dragonfly. This was the odd brown one out of the whole flock. It was also a little harder to get too because it kept moving around. Unlike the blue dragonfly, this didn't stay in a spot for long. I waited for a good 5 minutes for it to find a spot, and when it did, it was too far. I had to stamp my way through some dead grass and crouch down to get a good angle. Even then, the camera couldn't focus on the dragonfly because there was too much going on behind it.