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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 -