Month #14 - Retrospective of Daily Photos posted from 5/04 to 12/09 (most viewers for the month)

June 2005 - Into my 2nd year of daily shooting & posting. The actual viewer's choice, posted yesterday, was a dragonfly. So is this. This critter was one of several hundred in a meadow shortly after sunrise - temperature in the low 40's (F). The poor creatures were too cold to move and the conditions allowed me to make shots like this with a 1:1 macro lens with a 1.4x teleconverter to get this larger than life size abstract. I put a "Plamp" (plant clamp) on the grass seed stalk where the dragonfly was perched, set up a tripod with the lens less than a foot away and made dozens of shots. The dragonfly would occasionally change its position slightly but that's it. Like shooting fish in a barrel.