Male Broard-bodied Chaser with repost

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Posted by Andy Shepherd on June 4, 2007 at 9:44 AM

Hi to all,
Male Broard-bodied , photographed at Potteric yesterday afternoon , quite a few bbc's were flying along with some four-spots and loads of newly emerged black-tails.

Levels , Usm (150,0.5,3 x3) , S/h , cropped for comp.

Canon 20D , 300mmF4IS , Hand-held in very harsh light.
1/400th @ F11 iso400 E/c-1/3 jpeg

All comments and advice most welcome

Kind regards
Andy...

Posted by Barrie Harwood on June 4, 2007 at 9:56 AM

WOW and double WOW Andrew.

I'd be tempted to do a little judicious tidying up (of spiders webs etc) with the clone brush but other than that - superb.

Posted by John Chapman on June 4, 2007 at 3:16 PM

A very clean sharp image Andrew.

John
Aberdeen

Posted by Paula Graham on June 4, 2007 at 4:39 PM

Very sharp shot, well done. I do like the colour of the bg.

Posted by Tim Munsey on June 5, 2007 at 3:38 AM

Stop it your making me itch! Great one Andy, my local bog dried up and so no dragons for me. Perhaps a trip to Potteric coming up.

Tim

Posted by Elliott Neep on June 5, 2007 at 4:10 AM

I've been scouring my local patches for dragonflies but they seem to be pretty few in number. Anyone else experience a high/low number this year. Wondered if the very dry spring has had an effect. Lovely shot. Clean up the gossamer and its perfect. Is Potteric especially good for dragonflies?

Posted by Andy Shepherd on June 5, 2007 at 7:18 AM

Hi to all,
Thanks for your comments their much appreciated , here's the repost minus the spider web.

Hi Elliott , Potteric is very good for dragons , if you visit at the right time you can expect to see the following , Southern , Common , Brown and Migrant Hawkers also Emperor and Black-tailed , Broad-bodied and Four-Spotted Chasers.

Kind regards
Andy...