I found this dragonfly sleeping on a twig in the early morning hours before dawn. When it wakes up it stretches and wipes and drinks the drops of water before beginning its day. I was able to sneak and move slowly not to disturb it too much to get in between the grass and complete a focus stack handheld of 32 images. This was shot using a Fuji xh2 with a laowa 65mm 2x macro lens. I used a profoto A1 with a cygnustech diffuser. Stacked in zerene stacker and edited in Lightroom.

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