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Gray Crowned-Crane, Grey Crowned-Crane, Balearica regulorum gibbericeps, 112 cm / 44 in. COMMON and widespread. Wide variety of wetter habitats, including swamps, inundated grassland and moister agricultural land.
Enroute Nairobi, Kenya.
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Guster decided to join when when I was taking some photos. He's far more photogenic than me, anyway. August 3, 2020.
A companion macro of the male Blue Dasher, and the pair to start the rest of the dragon and damsel summer "series."
Very few macros are taken from behind the head of dragonflies. That's probably because the eyes are the most noticeable characteristic of dragons. The dragonfly uses 80+ percent of its teeny brain to see 360 degrees. Each eye has 30,000 cells which provides it with a mosaic of the world around it, but what the dragonfly is really tracking is movement and it is a successful hunter 95-97% of the time! It's no wonder this creature has been around for 330 million years! (Btw, 10 percent of the brain is used for flight. I assume that the other 90% is all about sex since that's what's left of its use of its short life span above water.
All that said - and it still truly fascinates me - there are few close up shots or macros that are of the back of the head or the muscles that control flight. The latter in this image are the segments behind the head and on top of the thorax. I suggest that you look up a You Tube video for "Dragonflies and Flight" or "Dragonflies and Hunting."
The same is true only on a slightly smaller scale for the only other member of the Odonata, the damselflies. They are the real gems and my goal is to get head-on closeups of damsels which are scary beautiful with the eyes better defined (there is a space between the eyes of damsels, and almost none with dragons).
The one question that I have left is ... what are the hairs for behind the eyes of the dragonfly? Well, nobody knows. Working in tandem with the three ocelli (smaller eyes) which are extremely sensitive to light intensity change, it is believed that their those hairs function are related with flight stability. But again, no one is quite sure. After all, when you're subject's brain is only a few cells, it's hard to communicate even with yes-no questions.
I also decided to try this macro because few images are of the odonates' wings from this point of view. Fortunately, the wings are so transparent in most species that you get rather good views of how four of the six legs are used for grasping and perching. The two smallest legs can be seen and are used mostly for brushing the eyes and cleaning the mandible after a meal. Considering the habitat of odonates, they are extremely neat insects, but so are flies if you want to carry this to extremes.
تروووحون وتررردون بآلسلآآآآمه محمد & عبدالعزيز .. وان شآلله ترردون وانتو عندكم اآلشهآآده
ونستونا ولعوزتونا وقعدتوا امهاتنا ف بيت يدي لين وقت متأخر واحنا نبي نرقد
الحين بيطلعون من وهل ولو نبي نقعد ماعندنا سبب يقعدنا لوول
وآن شالله نبارك لكم وانتوا معاريس لوول نبي عررس يلآ خلصوا بسرعه هع هع
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وسوري يعني الصوره مو لي ذاك الزود لانه صورتها قبل لا نروح
وكنا قآعدين نرجع الاغراض وحاله .. :D
Say Mashalla Plz ..
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* الكومنتات الكوبي بيست بتنمسح يعني اللي بيحطها لا يتعب نفسه =)
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AUF DER SUCHE NACH MÖGLICHKEITEN,
MÖGLICHES FESTZUHALTEN (Heinz Gasper 1980)
Als gebürtiger Düsseldorfer hat es mich schon sehr früh in die Ferne gezogen. Frankfurt, München, Wien, Graz und seit 1999 wohnhaft in Jennersdorf, im wunderschönen Südburgenland.
Im ausgeübten Beruf als Werbegestalter und Grafiker (1966-1992) aber auch in der Selbständigkeit (bis 2012) ist die bildende Kunst immer allgegenwärtig gewesen.
Meine Leidenschaft sind Experimente mit verschiedenen Hilfsmitteln und Materialien wie zum Beispiel:
Kurzfilme mit und ohne Kamera - Kodak-Sofortbilder ganz ohne Kamera - Negativstreifen und Dias anders gesehen - PC-Fehler zur kreativen Weiterverarbeitung verwenden - Digitalfotografie und ihre Möglichkeiten mit einem Apple-Computer kombinieren und verfeinern - und bis heute noch vieles mehr entdecken...