Bay Photos by Donna

I spent a couple morning hours two different days in the past month, trying my luck again with the dragonflies hanging around the embankment at the end of Cambridge Creek.

 

Definitely a challenging subject.  And definitely a tremendous number of dumped files.  🙂

 

Except for the Blue Dasher, I had to research each of these to ID.  If I incorrectly identified any, please let me know!

 

Blue Dasher

 

 

Widow Skimmer

 

 

Painted Skimmer

 

 

Needham’s Skimmer

 

 

I couldn’t resist this bumble bee buzzing around me….

 

Bumble Bee

 

 

Common Sanddragon

 

 

While shooting the dragonflies, I saw something dart in the water and spotted a Needlefish.  I had seen them before this summer but always missed any shot.  This one made the photo-shoot cut, ha!

 

Needlefish (about a foot long)

 

 

Yellow-sided Skimmer

 

 

Black Saddlebags Skimmer
(If you’re gonna land in front of me on the sailboat mast, I’m gonna try to capture you!)

 

 

Eastern Pondhawk dining on an unfortunate butterfly

 

Dragonflies are definitely great practice to improve your photography skills of patience and steadiness.   🙂