Dragonfly

Hello Again. Last friday I signed a new photographer onto the roster at Aurora. This guy, although very different from myself in the way we have led our lives, had one very common similarity...we were both shooting photos of creatures in our backyards. We are at opposite ends of the coast line, but there was an immediate connection between us because of this approach to shooting what is in our immediate surrounding. Our approached were slightly different. He was capturing the animals and bringing them into the studio which yields very different imagery, where as i am shooting outside in their natural environment. Anyway, he inspired me to pick up the camera again and continue on with my backyard series. This dragonfly let my daughters and I handle him gently. He/she would fly around us, land on us, giving me time to get up close and personal with the little critter.