Today´s Odonata shooting

Hello all!

Today was a big day for many of these wonderful insects: emerging and the virgin flight!

Cordulia aenea

NIKON D200    ---    210mm    f/8.0    1/125s    ISO 100

This C. aenea is ready, shivering its wings... seconds later it flew off as its virgin flight

NIKON D200    ---    210mm    f/8.0    1/320s    ISO 400

This C aenea was crawled about two meters on try land before found a suitable place to emerge

NIKON D200    ---    210mm    f/10.0    1/350s    ISO 400

18 minutes later

NIKON D200    ---    210mm    f/10.0    1/160s    ISO 400

Female Libellula quadrimaculata

NIKON D200    ---    210mm    f/8.0    1/100s    ISO 400

Female Libellula quadrimaculata

NIKON D200    ---    210mm    f/8.0    1/250s    ISO 400

Female Leucorrhinia rubicunda

NIKON D200    ---    210mm    f/8.0    1/160s    ISO 400

This Leucorrhinia albifrons plays save and decided to wait for next summer

NIKON D200    ---    210mm    f/10.0    1/160s    ISO 400

Thanks for looking!:smile:

 

Thanks, Mark! :smile:

The larva is Leucorrhinia albifrons which is protected so it was released. But the guy who was with us yesterday catched some other larvas which he took home into aquarium...

Well, it´s relatively easy to get here :smile:

Thanks Alan! :smile:

I look forward to see your shots!

Tak Torben! :smile:

We have such a great waters here. You should come to see them yourself :smile: And ofcourse we have great posting list here so we know very well what is happening where and when...

Shot with Sigma 150mm + 1.4x tc = 210mm

Saturday morning we weren´t that lucky: we visited in 3 different places, saw only two dragons but then 4th place we hit the jackpot, hundreds of C. hastulatums, some L. rubicundas, two L. quadrimaculatas... and ofcourse yesterday there were even more of these, probably more than 100 L. quadrimaculatas + several emerging C. aeneas. So one of our gurus was perfectly right when he predicted there´s going to be mass emergins starting from saturday morning...

What we noticed that newly emerged ones were very difficult to shoot as soon as they got disturbed they flew straight into woods, so there weren´t that many of them posing for us... I´m sure this weekend they´ll be much easier to photograph as they arent so afraid of their new element anymore :smile: ... Maybe that´s what you saw too, as we saw only 2-3 dragons flying like they "normally" fly, rest of them hiding and waiting to get all of their strenght...

Thanks, Eric! Kiitos itsellesi, Eric! :smile:

Thanks, Gale! :smile:

Thanks, Dave! :smile: