Silent Requiem

• Photographer
  Hideyuki Takahashi
• Technical Info
  110mm,ss1/250,iso500,f8,full Frame
• Photo Date
  2025.9.21

I photographed this red dragonfly with a divided vision: one eye burns with the vivid red of life, the other fades into monochrome silence. Once a familiar symbol of autumn in Japan, the red dragonfly is quietly vanishing—its decline accelerated by pesticides and habitat loss. In this image, I sought to portray the paradox of human progress: what gleams as advancement for us often casts a shadow over other lives. Through this fragile symmetry, I offer a silent requiem, and a reminder: what we do to the world, we do to ourselves.