My First Dragon in Flight..

After it got used to me crouching by the side of a small pond it came close enough to me to get with the Tamron 90mm. Manually focused and hand held.

Dame good shot. I spent ages yesterday trying to get some in-flight dragon shots, so well done.

I keep trying too, but my S3's shutter lag just can't cut it. Super shot!

Nice capture
Great colours and the bokeh is awesome

Many thanks brian, eccles and peter for the comments.

Alistair.

Super stuff Alistair. They fly by so quick normally.

wow now that is impressive
I was photographing some Dragons today and briefly considered trying to get some in-flight shots but after watching one fly off I forgot the idea lol

Very impressive Alistair

I've got one or two Damsels in flight, but the Dragons have eluded me thus far. Very nice capture.

Superb in-flight shot, colour and sharpness is excellent, well done!

Linda

That's a pretty damn fine DIF shot, well done.

Dave

Excellent job!

Superb shot I know how hard it is as I've tried with my 105 macro
Pete

WOW. that background is VIBRANT. It goes so well with the dragonfly. How do you focus on the insect as it flies by? Is it just luck/trial and error or what?

Its such a good shot and I dont want to sound negative about it at all, b/c its good how it is. I was wondering though, what would it look like cropped more on the insect?

I was thinking something like this except higher resolution and bigger, cropped from the original image. Hope you dont mind the edit.

I dunno I kinda actually like yours better. Give a sense of more movement. I was wondering how much more detail you could get out of the 'fly.

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Great capture, I assume it must be difficult to get such shot, congrats

Laurent.