A Festival of Dragons
These dragons are warming up in the first rays of the sun as it comes into the valley. They spent the night hanging from the paddy field produce, amongst a few thousand long jawed spiders and argiope spiders, various mantids.
I am so lucky, across the road from my house, there is a 25m square patch of undeveloped land, over which a swarm of flavescens entertain me all day long, and I don't need to leave my chair :)
Location is Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Alongside a stream and paddy fields.
"Pantala flavescens", the Globe Skimmer or Wandering Glider, is a wide-ranging dragonfly of the family Libellulidae. This species and "Pantala hymenaea," the "Spot-winged Glider", are the only members of the genus "Pantala" from the subfamily Pantalinae. It was first described by Fabricius in 1798. It is considered to be the most widespread dragonfly on the planet.
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Often I would turn down some of the daily available subjects; like flavescens, sabina, ramburii, fluctuans, and servilia dragons. Pilipes, long jaws, argiope aemula, catenulata, modesta, versicolor, oxyopes and laglaisei spiders. I would try to find something new and different. BUT, instead of having 100+ shots in the can, I would often end up with nothing, and this can be very disappointing and even depressing.
If you shoot the same location daily, which you must do if you are to learn about your subjects, you have to accept that after 3 years, new subjects are not so common. Even so, I can expect one or two per week plus a few more rarities.
As I go through my folders, sometimes I am disappointed, thinking that I had a lot more to choose from. But if you shoot everything in sight, it could take several hours editing down and processing. It would be easy to fill a full time job with 3 hours collecting, 3 hours processing and then all the research and cataloguing. And, if you get behind, it can be a nightmare!
DAve Posted 9 years ago, modified 9 years ago
Dave Posted 9 years ago, modified 9 years ago