I dunno if love leads to skill, or knowledge leads to skill and then love, but all of those shine out of your photos.
As a long-time bird watcher, I've often admired dragonflies; they remind me of hummingbirds in both their flight and their gem-like colors--and the diffculty of photographing them. These are extraordinary images. I'd love to see more.
Here in the Adirondacks, I am slowly spreading the gospel that dragonflies, rather than being another noxious biting bug, consume vast quantities of flies, midges and mosquitoes, and should be treated with respect.
The local reflex is to swat all flying insects, maybe understandably, given the hordes of black flies, deer flies and mosquitoes that plague us in the woods: the most powerful AM station is "WBUG--Bug Country!"
This summer I had the pleasure of hearing an Amish carpenter tell his son at my cabin site not to swat a dragonfly because they eat mosquitoes.
In truth, I'd lie to protect them, they're so beautiful. '
Why does it seem sometimes that everything is beautiful but us?
"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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