It was a hot late afternoon on 15th Sept 2010.
I was on leave that day so I can spend some time on the hobby.
I walked along the canal on the side that is nearer to the condominium and crossed over to the other side of the canal by using Bedok Reservoir Road which forms a land-canal bridge junction.
As seen in the picture below, I was on the left side of the canal and I walked toward the bridge ahead ( which was Bedok Reservoir Road ) to cross to the right side of the canal, where there are more trees and shrubs.
This has to be the 4th or 5th time that I brought the tripod out without using it.
I wore my army boots and brought only
my camera with the Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens attached and my Nissin Di866 flash unit with a DIY diffuser.
I climbed up the grassy slope on the right side of the canal and arrived at a muddy plateau. There were many dragonflies at this location, probably due to the many tire tracks left by heavy trucks that are operating in this area. These tire tracks become puddles of water after a heavy rain and they attract dragonflies.
Managed to find a nice perch that allowed this single dragonfly to return again and again and again. I didn't leave any mercy in depressing my shutter button.
Here are the better pictures of the lot.
My portraiture of this single dragonfly.
BTW, my daughter, Isabel, thought this was a bee due to its black & yellow body colour.
Click on each picture to see it in finer details..such as the compound eyes..
It's worthy to note that for this single dragonfly, I exhausted 2 sets of batteries and on the 2nd set of batteries that are non-rechargeable, I fired so many flashes that the Di866 eventually gave an "Overheat" warning!
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