Congrats on your ribbon but I tend to agree with some of the other comments made here. Having always used live subjects when doing insect macro shots I have always been led to believe that damselflies have six legs not five. JMHO
Congrats on your ribbon - Colorful shot, unusual, and well photographed, even if it might be posed.
I know there are quite a few others here at DPC who have used dead bugs to win ribbons - some even have them on their profile page, so I'm not sure why there is any criticism of the technique. Unfortunately, I haven't been as successful when I tried it! :-D
Interesting shot, but the beetle looks far too dead. No self-respecting insect would be caught with none of his six feet gripping the stem. Kill the beetle, cool the damsel and suddenly the shot isn't that hard to get.
Now I find it interesting that neither your comment nor Harvey's are marked helpful. There must be too much truth in them.
Interesting shot, but the beetle looks far too dead. No self-respecting insect would be caught with none of his six feet gripping the stem. Kill the beetle, cool the damsel and suddenly the shot isn't that hard to get.
At first glance this looks like a once in a lifetime shot. However the lower beetle is clearly not holding onto the stem with it's claws, holding its full body aloft, as any live beetle would do. It looks placed. The DF also has a broken segment on the top middle wing, a sign of a dried out dead specimen removed/replaced once too often from a specimen box. They have very good sight and it's imo unlikely it would sit on a predator or land anywhere near anything that looks so different from the surrounding foliage.
I'd say this is from the same author as this:
and I'm now not so convinced that was natural either.
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