One second, one shot – then he was gone, never to be seen again
What an amazing location – 5 different odonata at one place:
Banded Demoiselle
Blue emperor
Broad-bodied Chaser
Four-spotted chaser
Scarce Chaser
…and lots of them (except Anax imperator, saw only this one).
There’s only one explanation for this: the location is right near the Rhine where we have a big mosquito problem, so they spray against those from a plane – but not every year. I guess they didn’t do it last year, so the odonata are back! I’ll take the mosquitos every day…
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Blue emperor, juvenile ♂ | German name: Große Königslibelle
Odonata – Aeshnidae – Anax – Anax imperator | (Leach, 1815)
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📷 SONY ⍺7III (ILCE-7M3) with Canon Extender EF 1.4x III &
Canon EF100~400mm ƒ/4.5~5.6L IS II USM on
Metabones EF – E-Mount T Smart Adapter Mark V
available light | manual focusing & exposure | handheld (IS on)
Here’s the cam/lens combo used for this shot
Lens EXIF written with ExifMixer | ExifTool
No post production, only RAW conversion in ACR 10.3 & square crop
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