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22-JUN-2009

06/22/09 - A Face Only a Mother Could Love

A busy morning here at Sleeping Bear Dunes with no less than five photo stops before lunch starting with sunrise at 5:30. This was made at stop #3, about 7:45, while the dragonflies in a deep woods meadow were still too cold and wet to fly after a cool dewy night. This was made with a 1:1 macro plus 1.4X TC for slightly larger than life size; lens nearly wide open and ISO of 800 to get a shutter speed fast enough to offset the breeze that kept blowing things around (the critter is on a piece of tall grass). I intentionally blurred the rear to draw focus to that pretty face.

Nikon D300
1/30s f/6.3 at 105.0mm iso800 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Guest 23-Jun-2009 15:46
Grate shot !