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Flying Dragon


Flying Dragon
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Copyright: Alex Strugariu (Alex_Strugariu) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 124 W: 0 N: 174] (649)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-10-07
Categories: Insects
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/200 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-10-10 18:07
Viewed: 1131
Points: 16
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Hi guys,

This is one of the few dragonfly picutres I took that I like. I took this shot in the botanical garden from Iasi (Iasi County, Romania) on the 7th of October. I hope you like it. Here`s a little something about the animal (from http://delta-intkey.com/britin/odo/www/mixta.htm):

Aeshna mixta (Latreille, 1804)
Migrant Hawker Dragonfly.

Adults. Adult body about 58–63–68 mm long. Average wingspan 85 mm; hindwings 37–40 mm long.

The eyes dorsally broadly contiguous; green (in females), or blue (in males).

Legs black. Thoracic antehumeral stripes absent. The wings spread more or less horizontally in repose; dissimilar in shape and venation; sessile; unpatterned and clear. The inner wing venation blackish. Discoidal cell divided longitudinally into a conspicuous triangle and supra-triangle. Antenodal veins in the forewings about 11–18 (fewer in the hindwings); incorporating two conspicuously stronger primaries, and those in the costal and subcostal spaces unaligned. Pterostigma well over twice but no more than five times as long as wide; dark brown (in the male), or light brown, or orange (orangish brown in the female).

Abdomen linear from a conspicuously swollen base; 45–48 mm long (female), or 44–49 mm long (male); predominantly dark brown (with yellow and blue or yellow and greenish markings); complexly patterned (spotted and interruptedly banded with yellow and blue in the male and yellow and greenish in the female); with a conspicuous, median yellow triangle on segment 2, or without a yellow triangle on segment 2; with mid-dorsal spots. Abdominal segments 9 and 10 unbanded, but each with a pair of rounded posterior spots. The male abdomen auriculate on segment 2; with a single inferior anal appendage.

Nymphs. The nymphs stout, the body expanded in the middle; when mature, 30–38 mm long.

The eyes large; approaching one another closely at a point on the top of the head; convex dorsally, their posterior margins not aligned. The head in dorsal view not markedly narrowing from immediately behind the eyes. The postocular lobes curving sharply to the back of the head from some distance behind the eyes. The antennae 7 segmented. The mask shortly abruptly narrowed well before the hinge, with the prementum stalked to narrowed gradually to the hinge (the prementum relatively elongated). The prementum quite elongated, being nearly twice as long as the width of its front. The mask with a flat prementum. The prementum bearing 0 major setae. The body of the labial palps bearing 0 major setae. Distal margins of the labial palps entire. Legs shorter than the abdomen; fore- and middle tarsi 3-segmented.

The abdomen terminating in five short spine-like appendages; gizzard with 4–8 folds.
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Hi Alex,
Nice shot of this dragonfly. Well composed and nicely framed. Very neat image. Well done.

Ben Lakitan

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  • horia Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2169 W: 218 N: 4382] (14898)
  • [2006-10-11 4:04]

Hi Alex

What a splendid shot of this great dragonfly!
The sharp details and colors look very nice!
Very nice DOF, too, isolating the subject from the BG.
Also great POV - parallel with the lens, and the diagonal composition is outstanding!
Very well done!, my friend!

Bravo and TFS
Horia

Hi Alex,
Wonderful close up of a dragonfly! The details are very sharp. The colour of the dragonfly contrasts nicely with the branch. Good composition, DOF and POV.
Well done!
Mike

bonjour alex
bravo pour ce cliché haut en couleurs,la netteté est parfaite,bien presentée dans la diagonale.
laurent

Hi Alex,
I love this dragon - so beautiful in this pose with the blue eyes, excellent moment and arrangement. Thanks, I enjoyed looking, bye
Sabine - wishnugaruda

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  • cosmln Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 201 W: 12 N: 493] (1952)
  • [2006-10-11 19:28]

hi Alex,

cum am mai vorbit, cand mi-ai aratat pentru prima oara imaginea, este splendida.
cu detalii foarte sharp, culori foarte naturale, un DOF bun si un BG perfect. compozitia de asemenea.
bravo si TFS,
cosmln

Thanks for recategorizing. I like your POV. Image DOF and focus are very good too.

Hello Alex,
Excellent detail in the dragonfly!
Good colours in the body, and the composition is attractive with strong diagonal lines...
Well done on the macro work!
Greetings,
Pablo -

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