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by Jerry_Jelinek on Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:06 am

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Congratulations! This is the Image of the Week selection for the Flora and Macro Gallery, week ending 2nd September, 2011!One of the most tolerant species of dragons that I have come across. The ruby meadhowhawk will allow you to approach and get very close even when they are active and perching on a plant. This image obviously is from a nice dewy morning before she could fly.

Olympus E-620 camera
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shot at iso 400, F8, 1/16" on tripod

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by Jim Urbach on Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:16 pm

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Love the dew look, Jerry. Would have shot this at a higher DOF so his front arms are sharp

Enjoy viewing

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by Tom Whelan on Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:58 pm

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Pretty dew details and soft light, nice background. Not just tolerant of approach - red Sympetrum species land on me pretty frequently, esp. at the end of the season.

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by Mike Wooding on Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:44 pm

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Very nice Jerry...still haven't found one with dew...maybe I'm just not getting up early enough.

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by Matthew Pugh on Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:55 am

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Hi

A lovely looking image from the composition down to the lighting – it all looks grand from here !!!

Thanks for the view
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by RogerNL on Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:26 am

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Tough one to shoot because of the color. Great to get him with the dewdrops. Well done!

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by Jerry_Jelinek on Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:59 am

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Thanks all for the comments - Jim, I would have preferred F11, but the slight wind made it a challenge as it was. I got one crisp shot at F8, and nothing close at F11. ISO 800 doesn't work well enough on the 4/3rd sensor to really make that a good choice. So ISO 400 and the best DOF was F8 for this shot. Thanks for the suggestion.

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by kostas nianiopoulos on Tue Aug 30, 2011 4:18 am

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well done Jerry , i love all thesse drops on this cute guy

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by F Giarrizzo on Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:11 pm

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Excellent DF shot- Great colours, detail and a smooth BG- My congrats, Fabio

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by Matthew Pugh on Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:14 am

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Hi

A big CONGRATULATIONS upon the IOW award

All the best
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by Jerry_Jelinek on Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:47 pm

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Thanks Matthew and everyone for the kind comments and the humbling IOW.

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by Brian L. Zwiebel on Sun Sep 04, 2011 10:15 am

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Congratulations Jerry, this is awesome! Love the dew, the selective DOF and clean BG.

Good Shooting!

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by steve mackay on Sun Sep 04, 2011 2:29 pm

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Superb Jerry, great stuff!!!!!!!

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