Saturday, August 7, 2010

Camera Critter Saturday - Dragon Fly

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 We had one brief day from the heat and humidity.

I took this photo of a dragon fly at Sweets Marsh in Iowa, it is a huge preserve but most of the roads into it were so muddy we did not want to chance getting stuck. 

14 comments:

Captain Shagrat said...

Lovely cranberry coloured dragon fly, so far Ive not seen one in the flesh this year.

Indrani said...

Beautiful capture!

DeniseinVA said...

They are so illusive. Great shot!
An English Girl Rambles

Unknown said...

Beautiful dragonfly.
Costas

Jan said...

Nice shot. We have had a lot of them around here this summer, I love watching them but it is hard to have the camera handy when one lands. One landed on Rocky yesterday down by the river but of course as soon as I moved to grab the camera so did mr. dragonfly.

Nikki - Notes of Life said...

Great close-up! :)

Chubskulit Rose said...

Lovely shot!

Camera Critters at my page, have a lovely weekend.

EG CameraGirl said...

Only a brief encounter with heat and humidity? Oh my?! I wish I could send you some of ours. :)

Neat shot of the dragonfly!

Pblacksaw said...

Great shot.. I can never catch them sitting still gor long enough to shoot them.. Arrrrrgh!!
Have a great day!
Patsy

Unknown said...

We didn't even have a full day of no heat and humidity! I can't be out in this weather and that is so frustrating!

Unknown said...

P.S. I love the dragonfly!

Iowa Gardening Woman said...

The heat and humidit is back! Good grief! The 7 day forcast is for more heat and more humdity :(.

The JR said...

I'm sure it's muddy on our property. We had unexpected down pours all afternoon.

Unknown said...

Dragonflies always amaze me how delicate they are yet sturdy. Very pretty! We've had way too much humidity this year too, ready for fall.