http://pendery.org/keywords/insect/index.htm A Photography Blog en http://pendery.org/photography/august-2007/cosmeston-lakes-august-2007.htm <p>We were in South Wales for a long weekend recently, the weather was gorgeous and we decided to visit Cosmeston Lakes near Penarth which was formerly a Limestone Quarry and is now a country park.</p> <p>There was plenty of insect life enjoying the sun, including a number of dragonflies patrolling their territory (and fighting over it), there were several large Emporer Dragonflies (Anax imperator) over one pond and I finally managed to get a reasonable shot of a dragonfly in flight (after a number of less successful attempts last year). I used a Canon 100-400mm lens resting on a fence post for a bit of stability and manually focussed whenever the Dragonfly hovered for a while, it took quite a few goes but I eventually got one that I was happy with.</p> <span class='read-more'><a href="http://pendery.org/photography/august-2007/cosmeston-lakes-august-2007.htm">All the photographs and the full article&nbsp;&raquo;</a></span> http://pendery.org/photography/august-2007/cosmeston-lakes-august-2007.htm#comments photography places wildlife dragonfly insect nature odonata Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0600 daniel pendery 67 at http://pendery.org http://pendery.org/images/emperor-dragonfly-66.htm http://pendery.org/images/emperor-dragonfly-66.htm#comments 2007-08-05 Cosmeston Lakes photography countryside wildlife dragonfly insect nature odonata Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:39:43 -0600 daniel pendery 66 at http://pendery.org http://pendery.org/images/common-darter-65.htm http://pendery.org/images/common-darter-65.htm#comments 2007-08-05 Cosmeston Lakes photography countryside wildlife dragonfly insect nature odonata Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:39:42 -0600 daniel pendery 65 at http://pendery.org