And now, a dragonfly

Walking at Knox Farm yesterday, I arrived at the pond on the park grounds and noticed a bunch of dragonflies zipping around one end. These dragonflies were pretty striking-looking, with stripes on their wings. I stuck around a bit, trying to photograph them, and I actually did manage a few, though not without an unforced error. Earlier I had been trying to get a few photos of a couple of bees drinking from a birdbath, and to do those I put my camera into its Macro mode. And then, I forgot to take the camera out of Macro mode for trying to shoot the dragonflies, which I had to try and shoot from a distance. So, the focus wasn’t what I would have liked had I not screwed up my camera settings, but a few shots turned out OK. Here’s one that I gave a quick and rough edit earlier on Snapseed (a good mobile photo editing app). I’ll try to give it a better polish using Lightroom sometime in the future, but for now, this looks pretty good to me.