Common Blue Darner Photos

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Somebody's Watchin'
This is a closer crop of one of my shots of the dragon from a couple of weeks ago. (Sorry to any Entophobics out there!) I like this shot not only because you can actually make out the hexagonal segments of his eyes. Which is pretty cool, but also because of the shadows of the hairs. There are hairs between his eyes, you cant see them, they are pointing straight at the camera. But you can see the shadows on his eye.

Friday, November 3, 2006
Blue-eyed Darner
We spent the last couple of days in Pismo Beach, it was a nice
place to spend a few days.
One of the places we wandered into after lunch was
a garden store that had all kinds of interesting plants
and things. The most interesting of them was this
Dragonfly that buzzed me when I was looking at a fountain (his fountain?)
Of course he froze when I found his perch which gave me a great
opportunity to get some nice shots of him.
His eyes are extremely beautiful, you can see the
hexagonal structure of the segments of his eyes in the
shape of the highlight on his left eye.