rip18
Senior Member
I was out shooting some bug shots last week, when a damselfly sped by & then lit nearby. I followed him around for a bit trying to get a shot.
I finally got ONE shot of him on a fern (see below), when he suddenly flitted off. I knew that I didn't scare him. I looked up, and just the other side of the fern was a dog-gone trash panda that had come out to scarf down some muscadines...
All I had was my 200 mm macro lens, but he still got so close that I couldn't fit all of him into the frame! He looked healthy & everytime I moved quickly, he scampered off into the brush before coming back out. He finally got his bate of bullaces and went back into the swamp.
I never did find the dog-gone little damselfly again either...
Damselfly - Nikon D3, Nikkor 200 mm micro, f/14, 1/40th second, ISO 200, off-camera fill flash, tripod, slight crop.
Raccoon - Nikon D3, Nikkor 200 mm micro, f/14, 1/100th second, ISO 1250, off-camera fill flash, tripod, slight crop.
I finally got ONE shot of him on a fern (see below), when he suddenly flitted off. I knew that I didn't scare him. I looked up, and just the other side of the fern was a dog-gone trash panda that had come out to scarf down some muscadines...
All I had was my 200 mm macro lens, but he still got so close that I couldn't fit all of him into the frame! He looked healthy & everytime I moved quickly, he scampered off into the brush before coming back out. He finally got his bate of bullaces and went back into the swamp.
I never did find the dog-gone little damselfly again either...
Damselfly - Nikon D3, Nikkor 200 mm micro, f/14, 1/40th second, ISO 200, off-camera fill flash, tripod, slight crop.
Raccoon - Nikon D3, Nikkor 200 mm micro, f/14, 1/100th second, ISO 1250, off-camera fill flash, tripod, slight crop.