Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Dragonfly or Damselfly

The theme this week by me is "Dragonfly or Damselfly". Mac, Kathy, Craver, Lew and I have a little contest to show a new theme header each week. We now post anytime before 4 PM EDT on Wednesdays and voting begins after that. 

I love to photograph these little creatures in such great colors. I chose as my header a head on view of a brown dragonfly in my Ohio Buckeye Tree. It was very co-operative to allow for a head on view. You can see the eyeball looking at the camera. You can see the buckeyes on the tree behind it.
 I was thinking of going with our flag colors of red,
white and
blue until I chose the brown one.
I also had a gold one captured.
These blue damselfly like to come aboard my boat.
This black damselfly was in my backyard.
See what the others have to show on my sidebar.

13 comments:

Sylvia K said...

Oh, Tom, what incredible, gorgeous captures!! I've never seen any like these that were this beautiful!! Thank you so much for sharing!!

Jackie said...

I look at these and I think, "Fish bait!"
Is that wrong?
Hugs and smiles,
J.

imac said...

Well done Tom, love the header and post shots too.

Jo Castillo said...

These are just gorgeous. You do such beautiful work and have a wonderful eye. Thanks for sharing.

Ruth Hiebert said...

Each of these pictures is a winner.I love the header one,so much detail.

Lew said...

Exquisite shots! My favorite is the black and gold lace wing dragonfly. The variety of colors is amazing.

Craver Vii said...

The focal precision and depth of field of your header is incredible!!

Katney said...

awesome!

Sandi McBride said...

I love them...my Daddy Dwight (grandpa) called them witch doctors and loved them to perch on the end of his fishing pole for luck...he taught me to love the Dragon and Damsel...lucky child me...
Sandi

Jenn Jilks said...

Amazing header!!!!!

heritagemom said...

Love the header. Macro is pretty phenomenal. :)

Looks like I may be joining your headbanger bunch; just waiting to hear back from Craver.

Linda G. said...

Wow! Great pictures of the Dragonfly and Damselfly! I almost felt as though I needed to move back in my seat, when I saw your header picture. That is a bigger-than-life picture; very nice!

Kcalpesh said...

Hi there... I got a few good captures of dragon fly this weekend and would like to contribute.. will comment shortly again with my post..