So much detail, beautiful colors. ^^

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amazing!

I like that one
Nice shot!!!!


By the way..... how do you catch flying dragon?!!
All the summer I was runing after them
and... no results....

Amazing!

wow, very nice.

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Stunning capture! Is it hovering above the water to lay eggs, or why does it hold its abdomen like that?

What an exquisite entry it is, too! I don't know how you get such detail in flight!

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Location....location.....location: all my flying dragons were shot at Andree Clark Bird Refuge in Santa Barbara, there are reeds 6-7' tall along the lake, at this one spot there is an opening to get to a small viewing dock with a bench at the edge of the lake. The reeds form a wall on three sides of the dock and I can sit on the bench and have 8-10' of space around me on three sides to shoot. Sept. is the best time of year, you can get some nice warm days with no fog. 9 to 11 am is the best time of day for activity and light.

Species: there are several species of dragons around the lake, this is the only one that will come visit. They will actually hover right in front of you, not perfectly still, but with enough shutter speed you can get some very sharp images.

Equipment: I used a Canon 100/400L IS lens, any lens in the 300 to 600mm range would work, you might get some shots with a macro lens but have more of a chance with the big lens. No tripod, although a mono pod would be needed for any lens bigger than the one I used. A tripod would be worthless in this location.

The rest of the story: The minimum focal length on my lens is 5.5' which is perfect, most of the time they were 6-7' away, which gave me a wall of reeds 3-4' behind them. I used auto focus as manual focus would be too hard shooting hand held. If I missed the focus on the first try, instead of the lens going to infinity and losing the dragon altogether, it hit the reeds and I could sill see a blurry dragon and usually got it on the second try

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Thank you

Location: all my flying dragons were shot at Andree Clark Bird Refuge in Santa Barbara, there are reeds 6-7' tall along the lake, at this one spot there is an opening to get to a small viewing dock with a bench at the edge of the lake. The reeds form a wall on three sides of the dock and I can sit on the bench and have 8-10' of space around me on three sides to shoot. Sept. is the best time of year, you can get some nice warm days with no fog. 9 to 11 am is the best time of day for activity and light.

Species: there are several species of dragons around the lake, this is the only one that will come visit. They will actually hover right in front of you, not perfectly still, but with enough shutter speed you can get some very sharp images.

Equipment: I used a Canon 100/400L IS lens, any lens in the 300 to 600mm range would work, you might get some shots with a macro lens but have more of a chance with the big lens. No tripod, although a mono pod would be needed for any lens bigger than the one I used. A tripod would be worthless in this location.

The rest of the story: The minimum focal length on my lens is 5.5' which is perfect, most of the time they were 6-7' away, which gave me a wall of reeds 3-4' behind them. I used auto focus as manual focus would be too hard shooting hand held. If I missed the focus on the first try, instead of the lens going to infinity and losing the dragon altogether, it hit the reeds and I could sill see a blurry dragon and usually got it on the second try

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"Only when the last tree has withered, and the last fish caught, and the last river been poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money."........cheers

ahhhhh wonderful.i so love to shoot dragons...some of them just love to pose !! this is great hey !!

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