Red Dragons 2013
Dragonflies have been scarce lately. I must just be going to the wrong places - my last few trips to the Allegan Forest have yielded only a few encounters with straggling Blue Dashers. The red meadowhawks that usually appear in high summer have been absent so far. Yesterday I visited the McLindon Trails to see if this park would bring a change of luck. I can’t say that dragonflies were out in abundance - they weren’t - but I did manage to find a few red meadowhawks. And since it was not breezy I was able to continue experiments with stack focusing in the field.
Here are the two stack focused shots I was able to get. Two shots of a whitefaced meadowhawk (click any image for a larger file):
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And a non-stacked shot of a red meadowhawk:
![](http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/media/blogs/calarti/2013/IMGP9969.jpg)
And finally - a blue dasher from last weekend:
![](http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/media/blogs/calarti/2013/IMGP9922.jpg)
That’s probably it for August of 2013 - come September the Autumn Meadowhawks will probably dominate the scene…
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