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Flying Together.....

Nice Capture!!!

you had to go try this! i had a shot of the same dragonfly ('Pantala flavescens') but now that you have this i suppose i should take mine down :)

great pic mark, this is hard to do

Hi Mark. This is a very good photograph. There seems to be some sharpening artifacts along the abdomen which detract a bit from an otherwise clean capture. They appear as a slight halo along the perimeter of the insect's body and legs. Regards.

Hi Walter. You are right - there is a halo. But it might be from resizing as I am looking at the original and I do not see it. Yes I sharpened the photo as I do not use in camera sharpening at all and yes I sharpened it before resizing - keep forgetting that I might use it as a small image :(. Thanks. Best regards, Mark

I have great respect for your work Mark. I do have one suggestion that I thought I'd share, not intending to "teach grandpa how to suck an egg" though! ;-). I just shifted the histogram to the left a tan. Thought it could benefit from it.

Perfect!

so many good things here. the off-center (vertically) composition, the delicate rendering of the wings, the ability to even capture this, the contrasting bright orange against the dull bluish gray. masterful work.

well this image is perfection. I just wonder what lens you used here?. Very unique a classic in fact.

Good detail here! nice!!!

Beautiful capture