last one of the year maybe?

[darknight]

we seem to be having floods nearly every week here now
so while out photographing them i found this big guy, it took ages to track him and he finally stopped about 6 foot away on the other side of a fence, so this was a close as i could get, not brill shot but i was just glad to get him before he vanished away again.
the little grasshopper was at my feet i think the antenna going through the blade of grass, must be slight movement

[Bobobird]

Ours have disappeared already so no more dragons until next year.

Nice shots overall. Background of #1 is killing an otherwise good shot.

#1 you might want to tone down somewhat the distracting highlights on the wings.
#2 he could use a bit of selective sharpening. On the background do a bit of selective de-saturation of the greens/yellows to make the subject pop a bit more.

[darknight]

hey bobo, yea i couldn't do anything with the dragon fly, as i said he was on other side of a fence in all them brambles, shame next to him was an empty branch he could have landed on! ill do the grasshopper later and see how it comes out