I want to show you how different backgrounds can enhance photos.
This is a female Navy Dropwing Dragonfly (Trithemis furva), and she was the model in all of the photos below.
We don't want to focus only on the beauty of the dragonfly, as I rather want to show you the color changes and the effect that it has on the photos. In nature, backgrounds will most always have a dramatic effect on whatever is in the foreground, and they say that the correct backgrounds can also add character to one's photos. So now if you look at the range of photos below, you will see how different the photos look. Like I said, it is all the same dragonfly, and it sat long enough to get several angles of it on camera.
Come and see.
As people, we are all different and we also don't see things in the same way. We also have different likes and dislikes, and to prove this I want you to tell me in the comments section below which one of these photos you like the best. There are eight photos with different backgrounds, and so you can just tell me the number of the photo that you like.
We have a river running close by, and the dragonflies often come into our garden either to rest or to catch something to eat. We also have lots of midges here and the section in the garden where my wife places the feed for the squirrels and the birds also draws the midges. Dragonflies like to catch them. So, at times they will have breakfast here, and lunch at the river :)
It's sad to think that these beautiful creatures (just like the butterflies, cicadas, and so many other little insects) live in the mature state for such short periods. They can spend weeks or months, or in the dragonflies' case even years, to reach the mature state and then they only live for a couple months or weeks. Their main purpose is to mate and to lay eggs before they die.
Such is insect life.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
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