Dragonfly larval case (empty, after hatching)

I shot quite a few images of the skin to test the control over depth of field that could be achieved with the consumer-level digital camera. The end result was quite surprising, the camera is a low more flexible than what I thought it'd be.

dragonflies don't hatch from skins.

you have taken a picture of the exoskeleton that has been shed by some arthopod.

Ok I used a technically wrong word, the picture depicts a dragonfly larval case. Check out

a dragonfly site with pictures of the whole hatching process.