Thats the reason why you have the yellow Jacket !

You deserve the yellow jacket! Another excelent work!
Weldone!

it's definitely elite stuff. how could be so modest? lol

glad to see new work from you. I like this one even better then the 1st. amazing work

only crit is the overexposed bottom right part.

+9

Lovely macro!

Looks sharp at the essential parts and with lots of details.

You deserve the recognition!

The yellow suit fits well on you!!

You are a good and humble person who contribute greatly to gfx and can accept others opinion when receiving critique.

...Which is not the case for all as it appears...

Congrats Vasco, well deserves, and you should get the GFX award for your activity here.

Good capture. You're making the best out of this lens.

@LoStSidE - I'm aware of the corner I tried to do sth about it... but every change I tried made it look unnatural, and with this series, my goal was to keep it as natural and unedited as possible. And at the time I couldn't have tried anything different with the settings, I think! A different F value would made the shutter slower and I needed the fast shutter to freeze the wings as much as possible, they were always flapping them to maintain balance, and exposure compensation... well if I went to a - compensation I think the blue would end too darker! It's a negative aspect that I have to keep!

@Moser - Thanks for the words! I think Gfx is a place to learn, and I think I have learned a lot reading comments, in mine and on others works! And I also know that I don't know everything! As someone said, "I just know that I don't know anything!"

Again, thanks to all of you who view and comment on my work!

this is a great shot.. l Love the composition and the colours.. perfect..

and the someone who knew, that he don't know anything was Socrates..

@rifty - The Portuguese prime minister! I knew he didn't knew anything! I think a six years old could do better than him!
Just Joking with my prime minister José Socrates! He is a joke so I can make jokes of him!
Thanks rifty!

lovely work and you indeed do deserve the gold! keep up the good work!

a long awaited new image!! nice work... those dirty *beep* 9/9

Don´t bring José Socrates to a such a nice photo, it kills the mood. lool

About what you said, a faster shuter speed whould reduce the light and at the same time freeze the wings even more. right?

oh and btw i've said it before to you but just to state it out in your first golden photo. you did deserve the elite status

good stuff

Great job,
Congrats again!
Top Mark

A very good capture!! Noticing the camera settings of high contrast, saturation, and hard sharpness, I wonder why you choose those settings in the camera. I think the photo does show all those elements a bit harshly. I'd recommend doing those adjustments in the post-processing as you can fine tune them a bit more in a good photo program rather than in the limited software available in the camera. Just a thought.
A very good first post elite image!

Wow!!.....an excellent capture!......great details!!
beautiful colors!
Maybe I find a little distracting the leaf at the right lower corner......maybe I would work it in a separate layer and tone down the highlights.
Great work Vasco!
Congratulations for the elite position!....you deserve it!
Carlos

@LoStSidE - A faster shutter would make it darker on the dragonfly's as well. I think I'll have another go at it and use Master Carlos suggestion...

@Gary - Thanks for the suggestions, I'll change the settings and see if like the end result

Excellent
+10

Congrats again Vasco you deserve it
excellent details & composition

very nice work. Congrats vasco.

9/9

Congrats for the elite.

good catch

Great capture! you really deserve to be an elite
Good sharpness and compo!

Congrats on the yellow jacket again... you truly deserve it

Oh yeah great shot as well

Great photo to celebrate your yellow jacket! Congrats!
The contrast, composition and ofcourse the two strkiningly beautiful models are perfect . . .

Nice capture Vasco. This is a species of Jewelwing of the genus Calopteryx. It's always a plus to capture natural behavior of animals.

A well deserved yellow jacket. This is an excellent shot - the mood and capture is brilliant.

excellent macro...congrats for the yellow jacket man....top mark...

I don't know all the technical stuff when it come to photography; But I know this much - this image looks damn good Top marks.

q traseiros esquisitos q elas têm eh eh

You have beautiful photos !!! I love colors of this one !