By David Hoskin | 2024-06-29
Stained glass glory
On 06/30/2024 09:40 am by Randy Strauss| Walnut Creek Recreation Area, Nebraska
This dragonfly let me get close enough to use my 28-75mm Macro lens so I moved in to just a few inches away for the photo, which is not cropped. It may be a Black Meadowhawk. I believe the blue and green in the wings are illusions caused by the otherwise transparent wings picking up colors from surrounding foliage, giving the wings a stained glass look. When I viewed other photos of this same dragonfly taken a minute before in a slightly different location, the wings were clear.
Canon SL2 DSLR, Tamron SP AF Aspherical 28-75mm 1:2.8 Macro lens used at 75mm. f/3.2, 1/250th of a second, ISO 200. Camera handheld, facing almost due north, aimed slightly downward.
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