Dragonfly In Flight

[Chip]

Thanks for looking.

[n5kc]

Cool Picture. I bet that was hard to get the first shot. Those little guys fly quick and all over the place.Nice job.

great timing! i always love the "bug mid-air" shots! really nice job

[Fred flyfisher]

Great capture, I love the detail. That must of been quite challenaging to catch that baby in flight.

[Vinam]

Whoa ! Chip, great shot, amazing detail .. 1/4000 holy crow , really well executed ..love it

Vin

[pjflan7]

congrats on being able to freeze this thing in mid air!

[shmelly]

Fantastic. I can't even get a half decent shot when they are still, mainly because they don't stay still. How do you capture one on the move?

[lkn4aurum]

That's great, you did an excellent job of panning and catching it at just the right time.

[batch]

Good focus, nice detail. They can be tricky little suckers to get a photo of in flight, but looks good when you get it right. Well done

[Chip]

Thanks for the nice comments, everyone. I do appreciate them.

I was lucky in that this guy was happy to repeat the "fly away, land, stay for a few seconds, flay away, land, . . . . " cycle quite a few times. So, I pre-focused on the branch and hoped that he'd cooperate by flying into the frame at a good angle. After a few failed attempts, the stars aligned and I got this one.