Today’s post features a previously unpublished image I captured in 2013, while hiking the prairie at Amarugia CA (Missouri). Early in the morning is great for finding and photographing beautiful, dew-covered dragonflies. Here is one I came across on that morning:
Finding dew-covered insects is always a great thing to discover … being covered with dew often renders the insect incapable of flying away. This makes closeup photography a lot easier!
Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 7D body
- Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens + Canon 1.4x TC
- Bogen 3221 tripod, with ballhead
- ISO 400
- Aperture f/9
- Shutter Speed 1/25 sec.