The Penalty Box

I snapped this photo before I had my DSLR. If there's one thing I've learned since getting into photography, it's that the gear doesn't matter nearly as much as the operator of the gear. A little luck doesn't hurt either. Immediately after I hit the shutter for this picture, this little guy took off and buzzed a canoe like a Japanese Zero Fighter. Except, you know, without the kamikaze bit. Macro shots for nature's creatures usually take some level of sneakiness, but I happened upon this guy while walking along the trail at Burnaby Lake.

f/5, 1/500 sec, ISO 100