[Leica] IMGS: Dragonflies

[Jim Nichols]

The horses seem to know the hand that feeds them!

I see very few dragon flies.  But, from one who does photograph them, I 
learned that those long wings are hard to keep in focus. My  suggestion 
is to try stopping down a little more next time.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 7/25/2016 5:15 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> PESO:
>
> We went to Charleston to babysit while our son Tim and his wife Jess moved
> to their new property.  They have bought a beautiful 18 acre horse farm and
> will be living in one of the barns until they can build a house.  I was
> surprised that even in the heavy woods and creeks there were no
> mosquitoes.  But there were LOTS of huge dragonflies and they eat
> mosquitoes.  I managed to get several photos of them sitting on the
> electric wire for the fence:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/163745526
>
> and the next two.  The last two show a dragonfly eating some kind of green
> bug.
>
> The next two show some of the land and Jess with the horses.
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/163745621
>
> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/163745645
>
> I took lots of photos of Red and will be posting them on my website
> eventually.
>
> C&C greatly appreciated.
>
> Tina