Right after the little Anna's hummingbird "sat for his portraits" with me yesterday, I was walking back to the house when I spied this little, tiny dragonfly come to rest on a pebble in the driveway... For some reason, I was having a great deal of trouble focusing the camera on him so I only got a few shots but, the ones that did come out were pretty interesting -- I thought... Check 'em out:
This last one's my favorite... :o)
Look at those EYES! Pretty cool, huh? ;o)
I can't resist throwing in this "bonus photo" that I took of a very busy, little bee gathering pollen from my as-yet unidentified species of South African succulent flowers:
I say "very busy" because, if you look at his legs, you can tell that these flowers weren't his FIRST stop of the day! ;o)
I hope you enjoyed the photos I took of the dragonfly -- just another marcher in the seemingly endless parade of Nature that regularly troops through the "wild hinterlands" of Cloverdale here in our little corner of Sonoma County, Northern California!
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And thank YOU, Quinn, for taking the time to look at them and comment! In this case, however, yesterday, right after I was having such a hard time focusing on the dragonfly, the low-battery indicator on my Canon came on and started flashing... I'm pretty sure that was the problem as I have experienced the same thing 3 or 4 times, now -- but I've had the same thing happen to me as you describe where I was trying to get photos of some special subject that I'd been pursuing for awhile and had numerous opportunities to get some really good shot of them but then 2 or 3 different things went wrong and I totally blew it... (like accidentally hitting the "off" button instead of the "shutter" button... DUH.)
Wanna hear something weird, though?
Every time I've been especially interested in getting shots of a particular bird or animal and failed at it -- miserably -- 2 or 3 times in a row, a few days later (so far, without FAIL), out of the blue, a "photo op" of that EXACT bird or animal will present itself that is ALWAYS far BETTER than any that I "blew" before!!
It's happened, now, at LEAST 10 or 15 TIMES since I bought the Canon...
It's almost as if "the powers that be" are saying: "Not yet... There'll be a better opportunity soon... Just be patient..."
I SWEAR that the sheer number of times this has happened to me in the last few months is beginning to add up to a statistic that is WAY beyond what one would expect to chalk up to "chance"... Strange, huh?
Thanks, Amber!
Cool, huh, Monica? Thanks!
Been there, my friend Tinch... and HOW...