Yellow dragonfly-Camera Critter #1

My Six words Saturday here “Be patient to photograph this dragonfly.”

I always think I need to have an expensive macro lens to take good images of insects such as  dragonflies.  I am quite surprise to see this result of the yellow dragonfly, the photo was taken last week while I was jogging in a park, that was a cloudy evening time, some dragonflies were flying around the pound. I decided to go back to my car to take a camera to photograph those dragonflies.  I was using Richoh Caplio R7, a very common digital camera, I am surprised it still can take detailed shots of dragonflies, all I need is Patient. 
The hardest way to photograph dragonflies, is to chase one that is busily flying around. It is not easy  to choose to photograph one that is sitting still. It took me about an hour time to capture one that is motionless. I lost my patient sometime.  Finally it was done. I set my camera to continuous mode and shoot several bursts at once. This will help me to improve chances of at least one image being sharp and in focus.  It is still disappointed me as the eyes of this dragonfly in the photo aren’t sharp enough, the photo looses some impact.
Anyway, I enjoy to take this photograph and learn something new, I used to take photograph of something in “big”. Taking photograph of dragonfly is a challenge to me as I am a person always lack of patient.
Happy weekend! I am going to join Camera Critters this week....it is a fun meme where everyone posts some of their critter captures. Still I like to visit Six words Saturday, I enjoy reading the posts from participations here at Six words Saturday, it is an interesting meme where I find a lot of wonderful bloggers.