Compound eye Photos

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.

Saturday, September 16, 2006
Resting Dragon
This is another one of those subjects you can easily walk by without noticing. I was about to get in the car and he was down near the ground. His wings are not out of focus, they are actually fluttering. I think that's what caught my eye.