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Please do share yours and join in the fun!
More importantly, let's encourage the newbies to share their postings. Recall how we all have agonized over our very FIRST posting. It took me a year lurking around DPReview before I did my very first post. I owe it to a couple of kind hearted members who gave me tips along the way and I am most grateful to them for taking me under their wings.
Let's share and have fun and no room for politics here please!
Thank you.

ric

A bee hard at work collecting nectar.
Taken with GH1/PL 14-150
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A Sting Bug
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Do join in the fun and share yours!

Thank you for viewing and your postings

ric

... What does it smell like?

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Hi Every, no special smell! Thanks fr viewing.

cheers

ric

A close up of a dragonfly taken with the G1/45-200. Please excuse the noise background due to excessive cropping.

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cheers

ric

Hi ricseet, you'll have to teach them to behave and then you can get in closer with the camera

Barrie

Hi Barrie, lots of patience is needed. Typically I have learnt that dragonfly will fly off when you get too near. I take this opportunity when they fly off to quickly get nearer, about 2 feet away from their last perch and stay very still. Generally they will return to this same perch. If not tough, move on to look for another friendly dragonfly.
If there are lots of dragonfly around by the stream, I will pick my own little stick and stick it into the ground where I can get the best lighting & background and sit about 2 feet away and wait. When they get use to me, I will inch up on them until I am about 9 inches - my min working distance of the lens to get a full frame.
Finally pick on the young dragonfly becos they are more friendly. For certain specie the above will not work - they stay miles away from us humans.
Yes, a friend actually trained this particular dragonfly and it allows us to touch his wings.
Hope that your dragonfly behaves the same over there!
Hope this helps and good luck.

Thank you once again for dropping by.

cheers

ric

Your stink bug looks as though it's a piece of sushi with feet and antennae!

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I tend to regard myself as a naturalist first and a photographer second. In this country there are certain cooler days when they are less active, but of course more difficult to find. Males usually set up territory and patrol it constantly, when they are behaving like that close approach is out of the question. When freshly emerged from the larva they tend to spend their time away from the breeding sites and rest more whilst their wings harden off, then they can be approached more easily. Also the females tend to rest for a day or two between matings and bouts of egg laying and again they can be more closely approached when they are in that stage. It's very much a matter of knowing your subject, but that maxim applies to all photographic genres I would suggest.

Barrie

That's what a few others have commented!
Thks for viewing!

Hi Barrie, I am neither. I took this hobby to stay healthy when I go out for my morning walks --- I take pics. So far it has worked well for me.

Looks like our dragonflies behaves differently.

cheers

ric