Figure 1 – Blue Dasher Dragonfly, Pachydiplax longipennis, Heard Farm Conservation Area, Wayland, MA (c) DE Wolf 2019.

More and more, my iPhone XS has become my camera of choice for macrophotography. The ease by which you can come really close, remain in focus, and fill the field with your subject can me astounding! This is especially so when you think how small the photo-sensor is. So, I tend now to use by Canon T2i for birds and landscapes and my iPhone for close-ups.

Figure1 is a macrophotograph taken with my iPhone XS of a blue dasher dragonfly, Pachydiplax longipennis. As experiment all post-processing aspects including editing and sharpening were done with Apple Apps. Dragonflies can be really tricky to capture sharply. The problem is that they fly away when approached and on this particular day, the blades of grass were constantly swinging in the breeze. But with patience …