Tuesday, December 30, 2008

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For the "hunt" to these wonderful insects There is a target "ad hoc", to be sure that a focal length from 100mm up is preferable, giving way to work as a tarpaulin away from the subject without disturbing it too much. I use mainly a 150mm macro, you can work well and with good results, if you want to push a bit 'longer in the' with the focal length must necessarily resort to the use of the stand.
At the beginning of this season, a bit 'by chance, I found myself mounting a 20mm extension tube, generally never used, on a goal 70/200, I was amazed, a great performance in terms of detail and with a excellent bokeh, now when I see a dragonfly resting gently on some branch, it happens that I decide to put this couple, where you can approach a bit 'more add another extension tube 12mm, but the problem is that you begin to argue with the shake-.
However we must never despair, even with a shorter focal length objectives sometimes you can pick fruit, first it is easier to get around and you can use shorter, you just do a little 'more than' friendship 'with the Our dear dragonfly because it allows us to approach and avoid shot, continuing to delight us with his wonderful company.

I find that the dragonfly because of its unpredictability and its conformation, is a very difficult subject to photograph, there must be approached with great caution and with its elongated body and his long wingspan complicates the success of a good picture, especially if you search an entire image in focus and a good background. It 's a crafty person, you should never think of having in hand, seems completely disinterested in you as you approach ... ... ... ... .... but be careful, the first movement too sudden ... ... ... .... is already gone. If it happens, there are opportunities to return to the same perch or one nearby, they are very territorial animals, but on this we should not bet too! Personally, once I find myself "Pull" I rely a lot on instinct, never shot without looking at the results of the previous step, I can not, they are too busy, I look through the viewfinder and on, another shot and then another. Many times when I find myself downloading the photos and watch them, I regret not having stopped a moment to look at the photos taken and then in time to correct the error, but it is often a source of satisfaction to see the shots, just for them facts delivered by an incredible enthusiasm, I seem to have something really particolare.Credo instinct, because for me is what brings you to strike a "compromise" between the framing, focus, depth Field and sfondo.La dragonfly has a fairly elongated body, I always try to have it aligned as possible, but this is not always possible, indeed it is sometimes impossible, while on occasion it may be inconvenient, because in that position of the background is not much. Even the background, the good one can change a photo, sometimes rising or lowering the camera a few degrees, without realizing it, the world changes, you are suddenly in front of a completely different background and perhaps better

Monday, December 29, 2008

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DRAGONFLY'S TALE THE TALE OF ONE STEP ONE STEP

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Now I wandered towards the end of the season along the edge of a quarry, my usual place of "hunting" to search for the dragonflies to be immortalized in the hope of possible macro last year.
very disappointed, I continued to press and turn and turn over, convinced that sooner or later I would find something.
After almost a couple of hours now decided to abandon the research I approached the shore and suddenly something attracted me, a little more than a meter from me, a small red spot.
Looking good, I immediately realized that it was a dragonfly, has now been virtually drowned, floated for three quarters submerged in water. I tried a stick and gently tried to retrieve a small animal, showed no signs of life, even when touched lightly with the wood. I was convinced she was dead when I saw a slight movement and then with the help of my wife, I carried in a sun-drenched, over a piece of wood. He was completely soaked, not moving, it looked really terrible. Over time, the dark red that he was giving way to a bright red and the wings were almost completely dry, sometimes the beat. I was pleased to see that he was recovering. We decided to move it to a more suitable perch and try to take some pictures. We had a chance to do just a few shots, suddenly soared, disappearing before our eyes.
It was a pleasant experience and emotion, I got a dragonfly for a few days more of life and she gave me the opportunity to make a great shot.
Canon 30D - Sigma 150mm - 1 / 100 - f9 - Iso250 - Flash off -

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THE LAST SUN
I love macro photography and I love sunsets. I had a dream of being able to photograph a dragonfly with the background of the sun. This year my wife and I spent the holidays in Salento, wonderful place, a sea that at times you can define the Caribbean. It was our habit bring us to a beautiful beach that also had the prerogative to have behind him a large sandy area with a multitude of shrubs, many of which are thorny and with a good presence of my beloved dragonflies, in short, a paradise. From that beach one could admire a beautiful sunset over the sea. Our holiday lasted 20 days. For each of those days, the hour of sunset, dropped the "seat tan" with my camera and I started to wander around like a madman in the bushes. At that time was already very difficult to see a dragonfly, and when I could not in good condition was to make the shot I had in mind. Who knows what people thought that continued to see me in costume and with a gun in his hand, prance in the sand, still looking in the bushes, as if I had lost something. Arriving at the end of the holiday, but now I had lost hope of succeeding, but I was sincerely glad to have tried it, for all those days, it was still a satisfaction. That evening I walked behind the beach, thinking that tomorrow would be the last day, when I hit a reflex, a dragonfly was leaning against a branch, instead of totally impractical. Suddenly she started to fly, like a rocket, I decided to follow however, continued to move, and then fly away after a couple of seconds and then off, so repeatedly. I followed her for several minutes, like a zombie, then suddenly it is directed towards the sea, in an area with little vegetation, very strange. I continued to keep up and suddenly has settled on a stem only a few meters from shore, I thought that after all those days and all that effort would not be able to do something, however, did not understand anything, I was afraid even to move, sure that if he moved from there I would not have seen her. I lay in the sand, I needed to take the sun in the background, I had to be able to keep us both. I had time to do a couple of shots that day there was a lot of mist and the sun was just disappearing. I could not even articulate an argument, I took in a trance, then within seconds the sun has disappeared and with him also the dragonfly. Strange thing that the next day I tried again and I had another opportunity to do some good shooting. I still like to think that that was their way of saying goodbye.


Canon 30D - Canon 70/200 + 20mm to 131mm - 1 / 100 - f16 - Iso 250 - Flash on -

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INFORMATION: Mantis




Order: Mantoidei - Family: Mantids


The name derives from the greek Mantis Mantis-IDOS which means prophet. It 's a kind of insect Pterigota. They are

in places warm and dry in late summer.
The mantises are insects of many different sizes (from 1 to 16 mm), diurnal hunters, the mantoidei have a vibrant color with camouflage functions or recall, the head mobilissimo with eyes with good vision, very slender and the prothorax specialized legs for capturing prey.

Like all insects, mantids have six legs, antennae and a body divided into three distinct parts: head thorax and abdomen. A large abdomen, surmounted by wings, sometimes partially atrophied, contains the vital organs.

When the front legs are in the "prayer", the femurs are juxtaposed with coxae long, hanging freely, and the tibias femurs are bent on the segments close to each other, they are required slightly off the front of the shins protorace.Femori and are fitted with pins arranged in two series, and when the shank ends are folded to meet with each other, also ending with a long curved and very sharp hook.

The praying mantises are predatory insects, which are present in all warm and temperate countries with about 2000 species, belonging to a single order Mantodea class Insecta, phylum Arthropoda.

When he spotted his prey, the mantis launches a flash forward coxae, extending the femurs and tibias and grabbed the victim after they folded like a clamp around the body of this, while the spines prevent it to escape. All this happens in about one-twentieth of a second.

When the legs have taken over the starting position of the prey is to be prayer in front of the mouth that eats quietly. During mating, starting from the head and genitals continue in coupling. While playing the female mantis eats the male's body, this is a great need for protein, and 'was found in captivity where there is plenty of food, the act of cannibalism is not the case.

The females protect their eggs by placing them in ovoteche, which can contain up to 200 eggs, they have a frothy appearance and a different shape from species to species. The eggs hatch in the spring: from the first small changes appear with raptatorie legs and soon spread over a large territory that prevents direct contact between individuals and the subsequent fratricide.

The mantises are insects with incomplete metamorphosis (the children, called nymphs, are almost identical to their parents and grow with a series of mute, without the stage of larva and pupa), closely related to cockroaches and grasshoppers
The mantids are Flying wings have atrophied or very low and often only the males are able to make use of this property.

The praying mantises are generally very static, if well fed. In fact, in nature if food is scarce they move through the grass in search of some insects. While if the place is full of prey, most of the time it attached to pass some branch or blade of grass, waiting for the victim to walk under the eyes. The prey are the best, undoubtedly, the crickets. These are rich in calcium and keratin, substances which also serve to mantids.

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Of the approximately 2000 species of 'order Mantodea, found in tropical and subtropical countries around the world, in our country there are only thirteen, divided into six genera (Mantis, Iris, Empusa, Ameles, Geomantis, Rivetina, Pseudoyersinia
According to Chinese tradition the founder of Praying Mantis was Master Wong Long
The mantis clap their wings only four times second, the common mosquito about a thousand times. According to some popular beliefs
the mantis brings malocchioLa its appearance in ancient foretold the famine and its left shadow, a disgrace to animals incontrava.In some popular legends has called "Pray to God," for its classic position " with folded hands, "and also had a picture benefica.In other traditions is a fortune-teller, and shows the way to missing children because you know instinctively where the wolf is

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INFORMATION: DRAGONFLY




Order: Odonata
under three orders:
Anisotteri - Have the front and rear wings with different shapes, the eyes are large and form, touching, a globular mass, like a "helmet". When you are at rest hold their wings outstretched to the sides and are large flightless;

Zigotteri - have the front and rear wings similar in shape. The eyes are placed on either side of the head and never touch. When at rest hold their wings closed. They are smaller and more delicate body structure compared to the large Anisotteri flight and have much slower and less powerful;

Anisozigotteri - front and rear wings are identical in form but in appearance as in Zigotteri Anisottero a recall. The world only two species of the genus Epiophlebia, one in Japan and one in the region of 'Himalaya

Anatomy:
Head very long, compound eyes and antennae relatively short, the two pairs of wings, nearly equal, are elongated and membranous .. The abdomen is relatively long and slender, composed of eleven segments. The legs are inserted before the body and are not likely to walk.
chewing mouth very characteristic: the lower lip ends of the tweezers in which the dragonfly grabs the prey.
The prey is captured in two different ways of hunting: - ambush: the dragonfly is resting on a support, and sighted his prey, jump on the other hand, the catch with their feet and go back to its perch to eat it - in flight: the dragonfly attacks and devours its prey, which are usually small, in flight, without the need to rest.

species of dragonflies are marked on the Italian territory 90

Mating begins with ritualized movements of the male to attract the female, to hold her feet and then grab the back of the head with circles, the male arches' s abdomen, stimulating the female to do the same to join the genital orifice in its copulatory organ. If the female is receptive shows will respond by flexing the abdomen and juxtaposing their genital pore on the the male and thus assuming the typical location in the "heart". Some Zigotteri mate while they are laid out and only occasionally in flight. The Anisotteri can spend most mating in flight, and it remained only rarely.

Reproduction of dragonflies is in the aquatic environment. They are oviparous and after spawning elongated let them simply fall into the water or attach to the stems of aquatic plants. Dragonflies undergo incomplete metamorphosis. In all species, the nymphs emerge from eggs that mature in the water, feeding on various forms of aquatic life. The nymphs of dragonflies have a special jaw, stretch called the "mask", in which affect prey. The length of the nymphal period varies, depending on the species, from one to three or more years, during which the animal encounters to suit at least ten times. When the nymphs are fully mature they leave the aquatic environment and undergo a metamorphosis, becoming the adult form.

Dragonflies are seriously threatened, mainly due to the intensification of agricultural practices, water pollution and destruction of natural wetlands
The high temperature is required. Sites miglioriper dragonflies are sunny and sheltered dalvento, those not in constant shadow vengonocolonizzati. The abundance of vegetation is essential. Lavegetazione is submerged sviluppanole the habitat where the larvae, while the emergent vegetation and are essential as a support for dellesponde lametamorfosi

are present in almost all the world and there are only a few islands in Antarctica and the Arctic. Are very abundant in tropical regions and their number decreases moving toward the poles. For example, in Costa Rica there are 250 species, while 140 are in Florida, 90 in Italy and only 34 in England.

Trivia:
seems that about 250 million years ago during the Permian period, there were the giant dragonflies: their wings had to be about 3.5 meters long each. The most beautiful discoveries of prehistoric dragonflies have been made in the valley of Elmo in Arkansas (U.S.

In the past Japan akitsushima was also called "the island of dragonflies

For Native Americans the dragonfly, a creature of the wind, is the symbol of illusion and change. In their tradition, the dragonfly is a messenger of the spirits of the plant world.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

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Posted December 18 ...

Just before you leave.
Just before know that I do not know what will happen '.
things happen more 'incredible, like discovering you do not know anything of what I think I understand.
Pero 'and' too late and everything 'already' past.
Have you been injured and you were so 'bad that you do not even dare to look back.
The door 'closed behind you and what you hate and' a whisper and a sigh of who was behind you. It 's been too long, have accumulated so many things and know the truth' now helps only the shadows.
For a long time I wanted to understand, for so long I need an answer ...
time ago, I dreamed of a wave, giant, which flooded all around me. And I impassively watching, without fear, without thinking anything ...
I'm pretty sure that my dream was referring to what I'm experiencing now, or at least, but I like to think so.
's strange to think that there' s just nothing to do, and it 'strange to think how people's perspectives change when time passes.
what I know now he might have changed the course of events no more than 'not later than six months ago, but now it has almost more than' nothing.
However, I am relieved.

Friday, December 5, 2008

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