Although it doesn't seem so when I look out my window, springtime is here. This means I'll soon be counting butterflies again for a long term monitoring project for our national butterfly conservation organisation. To my great delight, there are as many dragonflies as there are butterflies on my route. This female Sympetrum vulgatum is from last year, resting on an iron fence.
Panasonic DMC-FZ18, handheld, 23 mm (138 mm eq.) Suntec 4+ closeup lens, ISO-100, F/4.5, 1/200 sec, EC 0, pattern metering, aperture priority, RAW.
RAW processing in Silkypix, PP in Corel Photopaint. Minor tweaks on levels and sharpness. NR in Neatimage.







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