It must be dragonfly season if there is such a thing as there are plenty of them around these days. I wandered around in my front yard and took a few photos, partially out of boredom because my internet equipment decided to die on me. The other part was fun. I saw a purple dragonfly perched nicely and ran in to get my camera and it was gone, but I found some others like this one perched on a blade of grass.
This one below was perched very still on a twig and didn’t move very often.
But occasionally he would turn his head and look at me, which startled me at first looking through a telephoto as it made his head look completely different in the light. Anyway, it made for a funny picture. These two photos were taken 2 seconds apart.
These things have some fascinating eyes if you look in closely. I am not sure what they can see with them and I don’t know if it was looking at me or just looking around.
This was all shot hand-held with a Nikon Z50 and 50-250mm lens. Thanks for reading and leave a comment below.
Jason Frels 
Marvelous and stunning images! The one where he is looking at you is almost creepy. I can see why it gave you a start!
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Good, I thought it was just me that found it a bit creepy.
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He looks like he has a monkey face. I love the color of his eyes.
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I kind of got the gorilla vibe off of him too.
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Great closeups again, the colours and the details on the wings are amazing.
Dragonflies have compound eyes which IIRC have many fixed lenses, each connected to a receptor. This page – https://www.biology-pages.info/C/CompoundEye.html – implies that dragonflies have better vision than other insects but can still only really see movement so you should be able to fool them by keeping still!
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Thanks,
Yeah, if I move much they fly away. I usually stand still for a while and wait for the things to pick a spot to perch.
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Wow, I love the last one!
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Thanks
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Love the color of them! The one staring at you I would be afraid of. Who knows what its plotting! I heard that some animals can be quite devious! 🙂
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Only your animals, I think.
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Hmmm ….wonder why that is?? 🙂
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Your alter ego expressing itself
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“Haha!” 😛
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Wow! Seriously awesome photos!!
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Thanks for the nice comment.
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Wow! It’s beautiful. I’ve never seen a close up photo is a dragonfly as beautiful as this one! Well done to you Jason.
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