A Lesson in Persistence

This morning while on a walk with my two best fellas, we stopped a while to admire the colorful dragonflies flitting about the stream.  I told my husband I have given up trying to catch a photo of these guys.  They just seem to know when I am coming and feel my desperation for the shot.   My husband said, “that doesn’t sound like you, if I were you,  I would just wade in and stand there a while….let them get use to you.”

This isn’t the first time his ability to coax me into a show has worked.  Normally I get from him, “LAURA, a REAL photographer wouldn’t even think about walking into a stinky forest pond…a REAL photographer would just DO IT”.

So, there I was seconds later with my brand new shoes….knee deep in the stream…waiting.  Happily it wasn’t but a few moments and a beautiful graceful blue green dragonfly landed in front of me.  I started shooting a bit tentatively at first afraid to scare the fella off.   He just stood there like some high paid model, opening and closing his lace like wings…he would fly a little around me as if as interested in me as I in him.   At one point I actually reached out and touched those delicate wings.

I got a few interesting images from this lesson in persistence, but mostly it was just so amazing to share a magical moment like that with Nature.

So…this soggy REAL photography…slightly on the pond smelly side…is going to go enjoy a nice cup of coffee…with a bit of pride for exercising patience.