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Perching Dragonfly by Alessandro Zocchi
Saturday, 25th August 2007

Perching Dragonfly

by Alessandro Zocchi

This colorful dragonfly was using the top of this spike as observation point to hunt for insects.
Equipment: Nikon D200, MicroNikkor 200 mm
Alessandro Zocchi
Ph.D. in Natural Sciences, Main job as Research Scientist. Photographer specialized in nature macrophotography.

Perching Dragonfly by Alessandro Zocchi was photo of the day on Saturday, 25th August 2007. It is tagged , . You can leave a comment below.

10 Comments

david

25th August 2007 at 5:39 am

great shot!

Anurag

25th August 2007 at 8:09 am

Nicely captured. Dragon flys make for great macro subjects

kml

25th August 2007 at 1:00 pm

Great job on this little guy! Composed perfectly!

m

26th August 2007 at 1:58 am

difficult shot done well

Pauline Jones

26th August 2007 at 2:54 pm

This is a common sympetrum. I have taken a good few shots of dragonflies myself recently. They are not easy to capture as they tend to fly off while you are setting up the shot.

Eli Shams

8th January 2008 at 9:02 am

His posture is so funny ! Really feels like he’s looking at me.

Su

25th August 2009 at 8:04 am

You have captured this little fella perfectly.

Rajib Singha

25th August 2009 at 1:18 pm

Good shot!

mike

27th September 2009 at 6:34 pm

They are pretty colorful.

renee

28th September 2009 at 6:27 pm

very neat shot!

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