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Blue Damselfly in Water Droplets, 18 November 2015

Blue Damselfly in Water Droplets, 18 November 2015

I'd like to offer that I found this damselfly on purpose, except, like most of these images, I found them by bending down to tie my shoe, or remove a stick...
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I'd like to offer that I found this damselfly on purpose, except, like most of these images, I found them by bending down to tie my shoe, or remove a sticker, etc. Even so, I took the time to capture this one with different backgrounds to see which lighting worked best. This one, I thought, had the best overall image quality and viewable contrast.
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Aperture f/5.6 ISO 400 Shutter 1/160 Focal Length 1591/100

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Dec, 2015

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