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This is the wheel I've been looking for all summer - the Banded Demoiselle with its metallic glitter is one of my prefered Odonata!

To shoot them in the act was not really a comfortable experience: after watching them for some time flying around together playfully I knew exactly what would happen, so I had to go into the river to get near enough and I was standing knee-deep in mud bent down with the cam near water level (note I was below the damsels!), the sun was burning down on me mercylessly and the mosquitoes just loved the fact that I was otherwise occupied - and the damsels too, for that matter - and they had free reign.

But hey, all for the art - sitting here nursing my mosquito bites and looking at the pictures I think it was worth it :-)
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Banded Demoiselle mating wheel - the perfect heart
German name: Gebänderte Prachtlibelle

Odonata - Zygoptera - Calopterygidae - Calopteryx -
Calopteryx splendens | (Harris, 1780)
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📷 SONY ⍺6000 with vintage manual
Contax Carl Zeiss Sonnar 135mm ƒ/2.8 T✮ on a
Kenko-Tokina 2x CX Macro Teleplus MC7 (C/Y)
@ƒ5.6 ≙ 405mm T/11 (2x Teleplus and crop 1.5x)
available light | manual focusing and exposure | handheld

If you get the angle just right and don't shoot directly into the light you can avoid the ugly hexagons in the specular highlights even with the Sonnar closed down to @ƒ5.6...

Here's the camera/lens combination used for this shot.

Lens EXIF written with ExifMixer | ExifTool
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Taken in: Deutschland / Rheinland-Pfalz / Gemeinde Berg (show map)

Taken on: August 21, 2015

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Camera: Sony ILCE-6000, f/5.6, 1/200 sec, 135mm (=203mm), ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony ILCE-6000
Lens:	Carl Zeiss Sonnar 135mm f/2.8 T* + Kenko 2x Macro Teleplus MC7
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length:	135mm (35mm equivalent: 203mm)
ISO:	800
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	ACDSee Ultimate 2018
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