Best and the Worst: View On Black The thing that I hate the most about summer here in the south are the flies that get into your eyes, your mouth, mosquitos that bite and deer flies and midges and skeeters. One of the things I love the most about an Alabama summer are the dragonflies, darting and flying and twisting and turning. Isn’t it odd that without the things I hate the most I wouldn’t have the things I like the most? This was taken with the the 70-300mm macro, at full out macro mode. I waited till the dragonfly was hovering in the breeze. They will point their head into the wind, stop buzzing their wings and just glide in a head wind. If you’ll notice, they will nearly always return to the same spot, a sort of “launch position” from which to dart out over the pond and get some food. Wait quietly at a launch position, and they’ll keep coming back and hopefully ignore you. I keep the camera up to my eye, and open my other eye to locate the creature, then switch eyes and focus *fast*. It usually takes me a few shots, but given enough tries you eventually get lucky.