Widow Skimmer

Rick, this looks very good. You've got good sharpness and detail in the body and most of the wings plus an interesting three color background that is well out of focus. This is a mature male Widow Skimmer (Libellula luctuosa), the white on all four wings is characteristic. You can get more sharp details in the wings by getting the camera back parallel to the wings, but then you won't get the iridescent reflections, so pick your poison. My only (and very minor) nit with this image is that the df is mostly centered, cropping about half of the space on the left would move it over nicely

I like the details and the subject a lor. Also the bg works very well.
D&L

Mark, as always very insightful information and I do agree on a re crop.

There is no such thing as "out of my comfort zone" in Texas, it hit 99 degrees today..
I was half-baked by noon.. still waiting for the other half to bake..but you already knew that
Nice details and the layers of soft colors in the BG look great Rick

Hi Rick I too am out of my comfort zone with this type of photography. but am enjoying it immensely... to me this is a fine capture, with fine detail, light and BG


Albert Darmo
Canada

Nice DF image, Rick. I like the tri-layerd orange-blue-green bg. Mark has good suggestions (although I personally like the comp the way it is and would not crop the image).