{"id":22874,"date":"2023-07-11T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T07:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=22874"},"modified":"2023-07-09T07:29:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T14:29:49","slug":"phavorite-photos-odonata-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/phavorite-photos-odonata-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"Phavorite Photos: Odonata Porn"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Joe Berk<\/h6>\n

You might be wondering if we are switching to an x-rated site.\u00a0 We are not. I just happened to be out and about with my camera when the above photo op emerged and I grabbed it.\u00a0 I think it is probably one of the best nature shots I ever grabbed, although I have similar one with a couple of raccoons but that’s a photo for another Phavorite Photos blog.<\/p>\n

We were out servicing a water treatment site in California’s Yucca Valley.\u00a0 In those days I was lugging around a real tank of a camera:\u00a0 The Nikon F5.\u00a0 It was Nikon’s top of the line film camera when film still ruled.\u00a0 The camera was huge and it weighed a ton, and I compounded the felony by mounting a 180mm Sigma macro lens on it.\u00a0 I had ridden my Suzuki TL 1000S there (I could fit the camera and it’s lens into my tail bag).\u00a0 The best thing about that job was that I could combine a lot of extra-curricular into my work, like motorcycle rides and photography.<\/p>\n

Back to the Odanata story.\u00a0 Odonata is the entomological classification for three groups of insects.\u00a0 One of those groups includes dragonflies, and the dragonflies were out in force that fine California day.\u00a0 And I was lucky to have brought that 180mm Sigma macro lens with me.\u00a0 It was perfect for the photo ops that presented themselves that day.\u00a0 I tried pictures in flight, but I had no luck.\u00a0 When the painted ladies stopped on a twig or a weed or a branch, though, I was in Fat City.\u00a0 \u00a0I dropped the film off at our local Costco (they still sold and processed film in those days), I did a little shopping (I love Costco), and an hour later, they were ready.\u00a0 The photo guy told me it was very unusual to see photos this “perfect.”\u00a0 I took the compliment.\u00a0 \u00a0The pictures looked good on the 4×6 prints; they looked even better on my computer.<\/p>\n

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Both the F5 and the 180mm Sigma lens have gone down the road.\u00a0 Digital took over from film, I went full bore into the digital world, and I found the 180mm Sigma macro lens wasn’t good for much else besides fornicating dragonflies.\u00a0 \u00a0Today I use a Sigma 50mm macro for all my closeup work (it’s about as perfect a lens as I’ve ever used for macrophotography), and my cameras are either Nikon’s D810, the D3300, or my cell phone.<\/p>\n

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Earlier Phavorite Photos?\u00a0 You bet!\u00a0 Click on each to get their story.<\/p>\n

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By Joe Berk You might be wondering if we are switching to an x-rated site.\u00a0 We are not. I just happened to be out and about with my camera when the above photo op emerged and I grabbed it.\u00a0 I think it is probably one of the best nature shots I ever grabbed, although I … Continue reading “Phavorite Photos: Odonata Porn”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[392,96],"tags":[3650,2735,3648,2270,3652,3655,3647,922,3651,3649,2271,3653,3654,1103,3646],"class_list":["post-22874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-back-in-the-day","category-feel-good-stuff","tag-anisoptera","tag-california","tag-dragonflies","tag-favorite-photos","tag-film-photography","tag-insect-photography","tag-morongo-valley","tag-nikon","tag-nikon-f5","tag-odonata","tag-phavorite-photos","tag-sigma-lens","tag-sigma-macro-lens","tag-suzuki-tl1000s","tag-yucca-valley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/EffinDragonflies900x600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22874"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23045,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22874\/revisions\/23045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}