Photographs - Damselflies, Summer 2005

The following photographs were taken during the summer of 2005. I've been playing around with two kinds of light sources, cross-polarization (combination of polarized flash and polarizing filter) and flash softened by 1/8-inch "sign white" acrylic." FOR BEST RESULTS, 1024 X 768 RESOLUTION OF GREATER IS RECOMMENDED -- IF MORE VERTICAL SPACE IS NEEDED TO VIEW PICTURE, STRIKE THE "F11" KEY TO TOGGLE FULL SCREEN MODE (SOME BROWSERS WILL SHRINK THE PICTURE TO FIT THE WINDOW AND THUS DEGRADE ITS QUALITY).

Male Alkali Bluet (Enallagma clausum), Goose Lake, Modoc County, California, 9/10/05. [Flash, "sign-white" acrylic.]

Male Alkali Bluet, Goose Lake, Modoc County, California, 9/11/05. [Flash, cross-polarized.]

Male Tule Bluet (Enallagma carunculatum), Turtle Bay, Redding, Shasta County, California, 9/02/05. [Flash, "sign-white" acrylic.]

Pretty certain this is a male Boreal Bluet (Enallagma boreale), Manton, Tehama County, California, June 2005. [Flash, cross-polarized.]

Male Pacific Forktail (Ischnura cervula), Lake McCumber, Shasta County, California, 8/13/05. [Flash, cross-polarized.]

Male Northern Spreadwing (Lestes disjunctus), Summit Lake, Shasta County, California, 8/14/05. [Flash, "sign-white" acrylic.]

Not a damselfly, but I wanted to include it anyway. Here is a Great Basin or Mormon Fritillary, Summit Lake, Shasta County, California, 8/14/05. [Flash, "sign-white" acrylic.]

Great Basin or Mormon Fritillary, same individual as above. [Flash, "sign-white" acrylic.]