Pohjoista valoa etsimässä

Yesterday I spent more than three hours wandering around Paarnoori in search for dragonflies. Sun was shining in its full but the light was still pleasant enough to photograph. -Actually light was very beautiful but not excellent though. Wind made only occasional blasts on the reedy shores of Preiviikinlahti. I felt very happy and priviledged to be there with my camera.

Summer nears its end and autumn is coming. Few flowers that blossom this time of summer are offering their precious nectar and pollen to the late summer insects. Mosquitoes have given up already, and it, by no means, doesn’t disturb me at all *grin*

Dragonflies were very co-operative and I shot almost three GB’s of pictures! Quantity over quality…hope not. I just wanted to be sure I got enough keeper shots. One purpose was to shoot every odd-looking dragon and identify it later. (By this far, they have all been vagrant darters…) I ordered this book to help me with the ID’s.

The picture is shot with 300mm lens + 36mm tube. I used shutter priority @ 1/400 to eliminate the shaking. -Tripod is your best friend with this combo! Picture is cropped a bit from the original to get better composition. I like the BG control gained by the telephoto lens I use.

Another peek into another animal’s private life. Vipivarous (or common) lizard is one of my favourite subjects. By this far, there has been too few encounters :-( The picture could have been a bit sharper, but I still like it.

I think this relationship between these two frogs ain’t gonna last very long. What do you think about it? Shot @ cottage terrace this summer in “Velvia” light :-)

Needless to say it again, but it is still quite dry here. This could be our potatoe field if we had one!

Our cucumber spider has been eating a lot and now her stomach seems to be finally full. She’s actually awfully fat now and hasn’t even woven the web for two days now! Should get a new picture some day. This one was also a very fat (and HUGE) spider indeed:

She used to live in our cottage terrace and we also fed her. -I have heard rumors of strangely disappearing livestock in that area lately…