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milloup (1829) 2004-07-05 4:35

Jan, I think this is a male Ischnura elegans (blue-tailed damselfly). Females come in different colours, one of them is the violet form.
The tail end of your damselfly looks sharper than the front end. Did you shoot at 1/30 sec? (I think 30 sec must be a mistake when entering the data..). 1/30 is on the slow side for handheld, if you want a sharp shot.
Had the damselfly been sharp, this would have been very good, because you have a clean background to set it off. However, you need more DOF than f 5.6 will give you, more like f11 or f13.
If you have too little light, you might try using the setting M, pop shutter to 1/200, F-stop to 13 and onboard flash on. This works well for macros in a lot of situations, so I've come to realise (I've a 300D too).

RobBrown (1789) 2004-07-05 18:04

Good shot I would have to agree with all Bente had to say,
quiet a few of my shots come out at speeds betqeen 1/30 and 1/60 because digital cameras seem to have software capable of handling a litle camera shake. the slight blurring of the head is because he turned it as you pressed the shutter. all i can add is good 1st efort lets see a few more as good as this and the odd one will come out superb.