UPDATED Jan 11, 2010 Photobook Flying Dragons by Ghislain Simard, aka "dragonflies in flight". Stunning DIFs (Dragonflies In Flight) photos of various European dragonflies and damselflies, with excellent technical and artistic quality. However, almost all dragonflies are taken with their legs outstretched which looks very unnatural and odd as all dragonflies and damsleflies fly with legs tightly folded at the body. They outstretch legs only when taking-off or landing (or catching prey) which, however, is apparently not the case of some of the presented photographs as there is no perch close around. Sadly almost no word is spent about this behaviour of featured dragons in the book. I wrote about this my concern right to the Mr. Simard, and he has provided me a very effective and interesting explanation. Read the rest of this entry »