The theme is green on MacroMonday, and I happened to photograph this green eyed monster on green leaves yesterday at one of my local dragonfly ponds. It is a teneral dragonfly…one that has only just emerged from its last larval form, and this is not how it will look in a few days. I think it is one of three very similar smallish red Meadowhawks that we have here…White-faced, Cherry-faced, or Ruby. Impossible to tell at this stage. Whatever it is, there were a lot of them at the pond yesterday.

Canon SX50HS. My usual modifications to Program. 1800mm equivalent field of view. f6.5 @ 1/800th @ ISO 800. Processed in Lightroom.