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Aeshna juncea

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Posted by Nick Mckeown on July 15, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Aeshna juncea
D7000 105mm f2.8 macro + TC14e ISO 250 1/100s at f9 tripod and cable release.

Common hawker (male) found early yesterday morning whilst out for Ringlets. Very lucky to find him so early in the day and I spent over an hour taking different images. The lower left hand wing has some remains of some liquid of some type and does detract from the image a little but then again it is natural and they can't all be pefect. Also note the two midges sat on the right hand lower wing which I decided to leave rather than clone them out as they give a sense of scale to the hawker. The humble Scottish midge is the bane of my life on still mornings and literally drive me insane to the point where I have to physically move away from the camera to get some respite from their biting and also to lure them from the shoot location as they cause problems with brown blurs on the image when flying in front of the lens. All C+C warmly welcomed as always.

Nick. :wavey: :smile:
Posted by Barry Southon on July 15, 2012 at 12:56 PM
Nick

A really first class image, exceptional detail.

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Posted by John Robinson on July 15, 2012 at 5:24 PM
Looks ok to me. Hard one to crop I reckon.
Cheers
JR
Posted by David Sewell on July 15, 2012 at 5:44 PM
Lovely, clean shot. I agree with John that is is a hard one to crop. Personally I would opt for a portrait crop, but it is very marginal.

David
Posted by Kim Connolly on July 16, 2012 at 6:32 AM
A beautiful image, the detail is exceptional. :toast: :toast:
Posted by David Taylor on July 16, 2012 at 7:05 AM
An excellent shot with oodles of detail. No nits from me apart from lacking the extra D :biggrin: :eek: :cool:

:toast: :toast: :toast: :jump:
Posted by Craig Jones on July 17, 2012 at 5:49 AM
Very nice, like the colours and details, if you could have gone back a tad this image would have been best in portrait I feel, giving more room top and bottom.Very nice :wink: :wavey: