very nice,cool shot and great sword...good luck

great shot, if you have time try reducing the blue a little.

Thanks Friiskiwi.

Nice entry, great focus and choice in background. GL!

nicely done, neat background and good detail...

good luck

Nicely shot..

Very nice shot! Congrats

lovely !

Haha i used to be in karate in i have a pair of them!

Nice color! GL!

Now THIS is probably one of the best photos I've seen from you so good luck!

Absolutely stunning, Author. After staring at this for the past 15 minutes I think I understand how you did it and I have to say I'm amazed. Perhaps after this week you'd be so kind as to not submit for a while and give the rest of us a chance?

What locksmagic said

stunning doesn't really cover it.

Thanks everyone....I am humbled.... Dragon was propped upside down with a little tilt, camera to match angle...dragon lit up with low power flash... smoke lit up with higher power flash with red filter on it. Smoke flash was on floor behind so as not to light up dragon too much. Thanks for comments as always.

Very creative thinking and well done

wild!!!

nicely done!

awsomeeeeeeeeee

Congrats for your first place! Great entry!

Great Job! This shot was awesome and definitely deserved 1st!

Amazing catch! great shot

Absolutely stunning.

i spent hours one day trying to get a shot like this and never got anything except a distant blur. Graet Job

Thank you so much! I also took several photos. I used manual focus and I tried to follow the flight of the dragonfly. Sometimes it was so quick.

This is so sharp. Great job!

It's easy to take a picture of them standing on a leaf, but flying... wonderful capture!

great shot ! good luck

And congrats for another first place!

Congratulations for the 1st. place!

Thank you so much!