Before it got too dark I had to take the clothes off the line cause it's supposed to rain for the next 2 days...
One one of my kids' sock, there was a huge dragonfly!!!
It was too dark to take any pictures on that side of the house, so I took the sock off the line, went to get my camera, then went on the other side of the house..
Unfortunately, the sun had already gone down and it was very cloudy, so the light is not the best...
I even had to change the settings to ISO 80 to 100 ...
I hate to go higher cause on my little camera, the gran shows a lot about 100...
Went to the minimum speed I could handle, 1/40 or 1/50 I think and hoped for the best...

I was able to take 5 pictures before it flew off...
Then went back to my routine and took the rest of the clothes off the line.
Who do see again?
That same dragonfly..
But instead of going on a piece of clothing, it flew directly in a spiderweb
I saw the spider race to get the dragonfly, and I hit them both with a sock, sending them in the grass...
Couldn't find them afterwards..
I hope the dragonfly got away!



This post was edited by MotherOfTwo on Aug 28 2009 09:28pm

wow! You do get a lot of unexpected visitors there lol
I never thought a dragonfly would be so interested in socks maybe it was muted from a fly?

this is a very good picture Awesome color on him...Good close up

Lol what a story, and also very nice photograph, didn't know cameras were able to have such high resolution

Nice capture Marie

Thats a very nice picture Marie, love the colors of the dragonfly.

Well done, especially since you had to carry it to another place first due to the light.
Impressive it stood still and did not fly away before when the sock suddenly began to move.
Looks like someone is into model business and wanted to get captured on the photo

Im sure in exchange for the patience allowing you to take the beautiful photo
you saved its life with the sock and will see it on one of them in the future again for a little shooting