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Dragon Flight
Dragon Flight
Swashbuckler


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Challenge: Flight (Classic Editing)
Camera: Sony DSC-F717
Location: Pond between 25-20 and 25-01, Longacres, WA
Date: Sep 26, 2003
Aperture: F-2.4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1000
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Sep 28, 2003

Damn those wings are fast! Handheld shot, standing at the edge of a swamp/pond.

Statistics
Place: 35 out of 118
Avg (all users): 5.7372
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5256
Avg (non-participants): 5.9487
Views since voting: 1043
Votes: 156
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0


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10/06/2003 01:06:06 PM
Great shot Rob! I was going through all the birds and planes and wondering if anyone would dare shoot an insect after all the recent carping about them. I've tried capturing dragonflies a couple of times and its really hard.
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10/06/2003 10:08:18 AM
Very cool shot, Swash!! I love it. I thought I left a comment during the challenge, but I don't see it! Congrats on placing 35th!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/05/2003 12:11:58 AM
Does that look like a piece of fishing line or etc attached to his tail? Well nice work. 7
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10/03/2003 08:16:00 AM
You've really caught the transluscent quality of the dragonfly's wings. Beautiful shot.
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10/02/2003 08:48:22 PM
THat's so good it should be outlawed. 10
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10/02/2003 08:20:19 AM
Nice catch of an in-flight dragon. This must be hard! Real shame we can't see its head though.
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10/01/2003 09:34:01 PM
The wing is covering the head,
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10/01/2003 08:34:53 PM
You were able to capture some really beautiful colors in the dragonfly. The blurring of the wings help to give a dynamic motion feeling. The depth of field really help to bring out the dragonfly.
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09/30/2003 11:59:42 PM
Best "bug" picture.
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09/30/2003 12:43:43 PM
Wow, what a difficult subject to try to photograph 10 out 10 for the attempt but in this field I award you an 8. An above or below view point would have let me vote higher.
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09/30/2003 04:51:14 AM
Good one, I love the olivey green tones in the background. A pity you couldn't have frozen it completely and avoided the motion blur on the left wing, but I know how difficult it is to capture something like this in flight so I'm not complaining at all :-)
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09/29/2003 09:08:56 PM
nice capture - do you happen to know what kind of dragonfly it is? I have caught the top half of one but never the whole thing and wondered about the kind
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09/29/2003 06:07:49 PM
Not too bad....they aren't easy to photography when moving. You did well to get this.
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09/29/2003 12:18:59 PM
Don't know how you got this but it's pretty cool. I like that you didn't use a higher speed to freeze its wings. I think freezing them would've made this look fake. Good luck in the challenge.
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09/29/2003 01:06:24 AM
Excellet! Shows the motion of the wings yet the detail on the body! Wonderful!
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