This is my second attempt at turning a picture into a needlepoint.

I admire dragonflys. They are very good at flying. Each of the four wings moves independently, and they can hover, evade birds, or fly 60 mph. They are also a very successful life-form, and have not changed much since before the time of the dinosaurs.

This project was my first use of some image processing programs I have been working on. As with the Man with the Golden Helmet, the main effort was reducing the number of colors down to a manageable number while retaining image quality. I ended up with ten colors. Two greens, four browns, two grays, red, and black.