About this one
Beautiful demoiselle
Beautiful demoiselles live along clean, fast streams, and it’s the males that have these dark, oil-on-water wings. They rarely sit still for long. When one does settle side on, it’s the only angle that keeps the whole length of the body sharp.
Step close and you can see the hairs on the legs, the fine net of veins across the wing and the copper where the wings meet the body. At A1 he’s over sixty centimetres long, and the detail holds.
Best on a pale wall, where the blues can do the work.
