I love dragonflies, but it seems that dragonflies also like me (and my family).
We had our first vacation to Rhodes since the pandemic started and right on the first day this dragonfly landed on my son's toe.
That one was shot with the cell, so quality is not the best. First time ever that I saw dragonflies on the beach.
After that, I started the "hunt". As I was travelling light, I only had my 200D (old diamond AF, meh!) with me.
But I also had the EF 70-300 DO which I bought years ago for its compactness.
And even though its optical performance is always discussed, I found myself quite positively surprised.
Especially now, as I used it the first time for dragonflies.
Even more difficult than the AF performance of the center point of the 200D was the determination of the species.
It took me three days and the remote help of my friend and his friend in Germany to find out that these are
black pennants (selysiothemis nigra). More pics to come later.
200D, 70-300DO, @300 mm, close to MFD (1.4 m), some cropping was needed.
This is a male black pennant (f/11, 1/1000, ISO800):
And this a female (f/11, 1/1000, ISO800):