Final Hour of the Dragonfly

I went to see Linn yesterday, and we had a blast! Went to some second hand shops, had sushi, photographed. At one point, she found this dragonfly. I didn’t see it at first and asked what she was photographing, however, she did not answer – afraid to scare it while she crept closer. Soon we discovered that it was probably about to die though, cause it did not fly away, it hardly even moved.

Never been this close to a dragonfly before  - it was pretty amazing, they are quite beautiful. Insects do creep me out at the same time hah. Shot with my 50mm, and the macro shots are done by freelensing and holding the lens backwards – which is the source of the somewhat odd but beautiful light, I had some light leaks.

 

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