Lake McCumber, Shasta County, 8/1/06

A couple of late evening pictures of Western Forktail.



damselfly

Male Western Forktail. I find these difficult to photograph because the blue on the tail tends to flare (over expose). I tried to get away from that here (and below picture) by positioning the flash so that it shone from the upper right of the picture towards the lower left. Seems to have worked.
damselfly

Probably the same individual.

© 2006 Ray Bruun