A day in the life of damselflies

in #photography7 years ago (edited)

This male large red damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) was just hanging around looking pretty:


Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/320s

The azure damselflies (Coenagrion puella) on the other hand were having a busy day.

Just as I was getting a shot of one sitting on a leaf, another one landed and yet another one flew into the frame. Bloody tourists always do that:


Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/320s

Yes, that is the same one I showed exercising yesterday. Here it is, to save you a mouse click. Just a Photoshop experiment gone out of control:

Some post-exercise conversation; maybe they were discussing the one-eyed, big, black thing hovering around them:


Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/320s

The reason for the stretching became clear later; there were eggs to be deposited, and the male holds on to the female while she does that:


Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/250s

I suspect they went for a beer next, but I didn't manage to get photos of that.

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Hello my friend
Beautiful photography

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The contrast of the color of the red dragonfly on the green background was really visible.
But the blue dragonfly really I see it for the first time.
It's amazing ^^

amazing pictures...good work my friend...up and resteemed***

Fantastic. Your photography is second to none. Such beauty. Such color.
Thank you for sharing with us your talent.
Francis

Thank you! Now stop making me blush 8-).

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Now you are making me laugh.
Francis

Very nice photos, dragonflies and damselflies are so alien looking but beautiful at the same time.

Thank you for sharing!

My pleasure.

Thank you for sharing nice...damselfly ..It recall my childhood ...When I was a child, caught and play with them.....Missed those days...upvoted

@ocrdu, did you say “selfie”? No, “selflie”? Oh, “damselflies”! 😊 Well done! Upvoted & resteemed and…

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