Eye of a dragonfly

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Hi all,

Here's a close-up of a dragonfly's face taken this morning. There was a bit of breeze so most of my shots didn't work well, but this one caught a bit of detail.

Cheers,
Stephen

[renormalised (Carl)]

Nice shot....I'd hate to have to sit and count all the individual facets of the ommatidia....there's thousands of them!!!!.

[ejcruz (Eddie)]

Great shot Stephen, what lens did you use.

Cheers
Eddie

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Thanks guys.

Originally Posted by ejcruz

Great shot Stephen, what lens did you use.

Cheers
Eddie

Eddie, this was taken with the Pentax 50mm macro. I'm still without a flash and reliant on natural lighting, so I'm generally limited to narrow depth of field. This image suffers a bit because of that, but it's still a bit of fun!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Insane Climber (Jason)]

Thats just incredible, I'm lost for words

[BerrieK]

Beautiful!

I used to have a little eyepiece thingy that when you looked through it the view was as though through a compound eye like that of the the dragon fly. Imagine the human brain (as it is) trying to process such an image into a single figure...we would need lots of red wine or some nice astro stacking software.

[iceman (Mike)]

Amazing!

[RB (Andrew)]

Fantastic shot Stephen, love the colours and image scale !

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Thanks Jason, Berrie, Mike and Andrew. Glad you like it.

Cheers,
Stephen

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Stephen, that is awesome.

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Thats something i aint seen before.....cheers kev.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Stephen,

Another corker. Keep 'em coming!

Regards,
Humayun

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Thanks Jeanette, Kev and Humayun!

[h0ughy (David)]

Looks pretty good, hate to be its ophthalmologist though