A Dragonfly

[lmatney]

A couple of weekends ago I found a pond near me with quite a few dragonflys. I had fun but they were not landing and my longest lens was a 200mm F4. It was a bit short and did not focus fast enough to really catch them in the air. This last Saturday I went back with a 300mm F4 AFS and a TC 1.4 on my D300 and it worked much better. 1/1000 at F9 and ISO 3200

Thanks for looking.

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[3whiteroses]

Great capture!

 

[aspiringphotos]

Beautiful!

 

[fuss]

Outstanding shot.

 

[Louis Champan]

Very nice.

 

[alexf]

Excellent shot!

 

[BUCKEYE BIKER]

Wow! You have to be pretty quick on the trigger to capture a shot like that. Nice going!

 

[tojor]

Excellent job on the beautiful dragonfly.

 

[threecats]

Yikes!!!!! was that autofocus? I can't even get close with auto no matter what mode I try.

 

[Butlerkid]

Dragonfly on the fly? Yikes! Great capture!

 

[SteveM10]

Great shot!

 

[Ryan Bradford]

wow how did you manage to get that! Great shot!

 

[naknak]

Amazing in flight shot.

 

[j.ankanpaa]

That´s a great DIF shot! Well done, Larry!

 

[lmatney]

Thanks everyone. It was autofocus and I caught him when he was hovering for a few seconds so it was not as tough as it may sound. Mostly patience waiting for one to get close enough and pause long enough to take a few shots.