19th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Dragon Hunt
The Ground Skimmer Dragonfly (diplacodes trivialis) hunts a red colored unidentified bug at Sunrise. This particular individual was very bold and let me approach very near without getting disturbed. I observed that it would fly away in search of prey and come back to sit on the same black stone it was sitting on. It became quite predictable after sometime. So I adjusted my 2 flashes in order to take some extreme closeup portraits. Luckily after 2-3 attempts, this dragonfly returned with a kill. As my flash setup was ready, I got good looking closeups of it with kill.
Photo Detail
Date Taken: | 10.2021 |
Date Uploaded: | 11.2021 |
Photo Location: | Badlapur, Maharashtra, India |
Camera: | Canon EOS 5D Mark III |
Copyright: | © Prathamesh Ghadekar |