On January 23, one of Kirk Johnson’s photographs, titled “Dragonfly taking a breather” was selected as Photo of the Day on the Shutterbug.com  website The article accompanying the photo says:

Today’s Shutterbug Photo of the Day is wonderful close-up of a dragonfly by Kirk Johnson.  Johnson captured the image with a Nikon D3100 and 55-300 mm lens at the 300 mm focal length, 1/160 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400.

“The dragonfly is taking a ‘breather’ from a very busy day moving from plant, to twig, to flower,” Johnson writes. “Was having some difficulty photographing these elusive creatures with my macro lens, so I decided to ‘shoot’ the dragon fly from a distance. Seemed to work out quite well.”

Indeed it did!

See a larger version of the image in the Shutterbug Photo of the Day gallery here.

If you want to enter Shutterbug Photo of the Day, post an image in the Shutterbug Photo of the Day Gallery and include your real name and some background on the image (how and where it was shot; the story behind the image; gear and settings used etc.) in the description field to qualify.