It's hard to get a good shot of a dragonfly. They are fairly big: they have a long body and long wings, but they are skinny, so you have to get close to get any detail. I didn't think this shot was too bad.
Update February 2017 replaced missing picture.
Here's a shot of mine from 2008 :-
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The wings are folded on mine, not folded on yours. I wonder why. Is because they are different species? Different ages? Different stages? One needs to cool down, the other doesn't?
ReplyDeleteYours is much bigger and fatter and has a bent wing.
Bent wing? That's because he/she'd just flown into the finger I'd suddenly raised to make a point :-(
ReplyDeleteIt's sitting quietly, probably stunned, from the collision.
It was its way to (hunt over) my garden pond via the terrace where I was gesticulating. My bad :-(