Contest: Animal-photography|| Capturing a dragonfly

“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is an act of capturing amazing things with the lens and light. I am so in photography and how it works, even not having a hand camera yet I am still going well in photography and expecting to achieve this goal.

Capturing Nature is really a fun thing to do, you tend to discover more natural things that was hidden. Without all this Nature photography I wouldn't have know how many animals looked like, I would have to pay my way to go see them in reality, but thanks to photography always making it easy.

I had nothing to do at the moment at home, and I made it upon myself to explore nature around my surrounding, and also take cool photos with my mobile phone. I started my journey exploring the whole environment, it was very sunny and it seems insects were feeling the heat and decided to rest, after so much wandering, I found I little toad on a leaf, I took couple of photos but I wasn't satisfied with the photos so I continued exploring, at the same time I was very careful and vigilant for snakes, they are known to come out on sunny days, so they can feel the warmth of the sun.

After the whole movement, I met a dragon fly on a rope where we do spread our clothes to dry, when I tried to bring get close it flew speedily, it was so amazed by the speed it just zoomed off right before me, when I was trying to move it came back to that spot, so I quickly took photos of it, and left but it seems I wasn't satisfied with the photos, so I had to get back to the spot luckily for me I found it there, I was praying In my heart that when I get back there I should see it and truly I saw it.

To my greatest amazement, the fly was still on the spot, I took so many pictures of it at different angles and I even went on to make videos of it. I was just shocked on how a dragon fly would stay still for a while not running away from me, maybe he knew already that I meant no harm!. When I showed my friends this photos, they were like, "it is not possible, you cannot take such a close picture of it" and they asked which lens I used which could zoom to such point, I just showed them my smartphone, they were amazed on how my smartphone wasn't a limit to my photography goal.

A dragonfly is an insect with a long body and transparent wings often flying about on leaves, cars, water bodies and ropes.

• it has come to research that there are more than 5000 species of dragonflies

• They are known to be aquatic at larval stage and they hunt and eat small insects, larvae, tadpoles and so on.

• At the end of this larval stage, they will crawl out of water and shade their skin which will lead to the opening of their wings

• Engineers are inspired by how special a dragonfly flies, to make robots that flies like them

• They are so swift in flying that they can fly head up and head down.

• it is known that nearly the whole head is it's eye, so that means great vision.
  

Now you know more about Dragonflies❤️.

Would love to invite my friends @davidmarkgeorge @godswillokon and @johnmitchel go take part