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Brown hawker

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Posted by Chris O'Reilly on June 19, 2009 at 5:55 AM
Brown hawker
Got lucky with this individual, it stayed put despite my best attempts to scare it away through clumsiness! Perhaps a touch large in the frame?

C&C welcome.
Cheers,
Chris

1Ds2
180 mm
ISO 100
1/6 @ f11
Tripod, cable release, MLU
Posted by Justin on June 19, 2009 at 7:08 AM
Works for me :toast:
Posted by Ian Macdermott on June 19, 2009 at 7:43 AM
Looks fine to me Chris :smile:



I like em large :wink:






Ian
Posted by Andy Astbury on June 19, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Not the easiest beast to approach Chris.

The yellow antihumeral stripes look a bit over exposed but a nice capture especially so early :wavey:
Posted by Fran French on June 19, 2009 at 8:27 AM
Like this Chris, esoecially the movement in the wings.

Fran :toast:
Posted by Guy Rogers on June 19, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Hello Chris.

Nice find and a good capture.

I've been photographing Dragonflies for along time now and I still have'nt got one of these so well done.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by Paul Hobson on June 19, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Hi Chris

very bright image, and a very difficult species to work with so a great result

paul
Posted by Chris O'Reilly on June 20, 2009 at 8:10 AM
Andy, this is one from last July - I was inspired to post it due to my first sighting of the species this year at work!! (we have a pond on campus). The (normally) lemon bars on the thorax where lacking in pigment hence the 'overexposed' look.

As a few of you have said, this is (normally) a difficult species to work - I got lucky with 3 individuals that seemed to be (unusually) preoccupied with fighting over territory.

Cheers,
Chris