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The male with his clasping antennae is advancing the females, but he failed. The females were not impressed and moved fast with the antennae to chase him away.
I did make a stack from the movement of the male around the 2 females.
Macro Mondays 'closed' theme.
My Pandora necklace clasp tightly closed.
This part of the necklace measures approx 4 cm
I will comment when I can today but at some point there will be an engineer trying to correct the fault with our broadband service.
There are hundreds of waterfalls in Iceland and this is one we stumbled upon by accident while walking across near the Beserkjahraun lava field in the Snaefellsnes peninsula(Viewpoint on road 56). Soon after I took this shot the heavens opened to go with the gale force wind - absolutely drenched.
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When the male is ready to mate, the sperm is transferred from the opening of the primary genital on the 9th segment close to the end part of the abdomen to the subsidiary genitalia situated on the segment 3 and 2, which is close to the base of its abdomen. In the beginning of the process, the male holds the female with his claspers on the back of the female’s head, while the female twists her abdomen forwards and downwards to collect the sperm from the secondary genitalia of the male Damselfly. This specific position is referred as “wheel” or “heart”, and the termed used when they indulge in this process is “to be in cop”.
The female Damselflies, when ready to deposit eggs, hover around the water body to find suitable habitat for egg laying. Some also lay eggs inside the tissue of plants. For laying eggs in the water, the female Damselflies may submerge under the water for at least 30 minutes, and at intervals, climb on the aquatic plant’s stem. During this period, the male guards the female and the eggs from other rival male Damselflies.
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American poet, 1807 - 1882).
I figured this quote fits this capture very well. When venturing out this morning, I didn't think I would be able to capture anything very nice, because the light was already too harsh. But then, lookie what I found :-). To me this the golden clasp that binds my volume of the week.
Have a happy Sunday everyone and as usual thanks a lot for visting.
Metal clasp for the key of my daughter on the yellow tape with sunflowers :)
Macro Mondays - theme: "Fasteners"
#fastener #MacroMondays
A tiny clasp of a necklace, made of wire, metal balls and coloured threads and glass beads
Happy Macro Monday
We waited most of the night for that cloud to lift, unfortunately it never, if it had of, then it would have been an arc of green over Vestrahorn which it shows creeping through the cloud here. We upped sticks and headed for the Jok glacier lake where we were not to be disappointed.
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Bolinas Ridge, Mount Tamalpais State Park, California
Seemingly like a pair of hands, the clouds clasp the setting sun, with the sunbeams pouring out, above and below.
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My hands clasped under a veil, dim and hazy…
"Why are you so pale and upset?"
That’s because I today made him crazy
With the sour wine of regret.
- Anna Akhmatova, 1911
(Translated by Evgeny Bonver)
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PHOTO:
Collage made, using silk scarf from Christian Dior classic 1996- collection (now - "vintage").......... just my tribute to a unique aesthete Christian Dior and his aristocratic taste
Even in the warming spring, the trails I walk are used hardly at all. Most often, my boots are the first boots of the season. Many times, they walk in the tracks I made the previous autumn.
But someone, or perhaps the wind, entwined a small sprig of phlox in a twig of sagebrush. (I don't believe I did it myself.)
These paths I wander range from old ranch roads quickly being swallowed by the piles of tumbling Russian thistles to no path at all-—here and in spring, the grasses are so tame and sparing that there is almost no reason to remain on a path.
The animal residents, mostly mule deer and coyotes, have carved their own network of paths amid the maze of coulees and plateaus. Some reasonably head to water sources and larger trails, but others seem to ramble as in agreement with my own pleasures of a walk just to see where I go.
In autumn, the grasses are dry and in places a high as your chest, making travel on anything but the most worn roads challenging. But in spring, when the phlox is scattered low and the tips of sagebrush show brightest green, there is everything that draws me back again and again.
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'Hence, to Clasp'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm
Film: Kodak Vericolor II; x-11/1988
Exposure: f/6.3; 1/100sec
Process: DIY ECN-2
Washington
April 2024
Found along the Red Cedar River, Meridian Township, MI. Note the leaves that clasp the stem, which is typical in the early spring as the flowers emerge.
The ice beach Breiðamerkursandur at sunset.
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Macro Mondays Theme: "Necklace"
Lens: Olympus Digital 50mm 1:2 Macro + Olympus Digital Extension Tube EX-25
Strobe Info: Olympus Digital STF Twin Flash TTL Auto 1:6.4 Slow 2 / Godox LED64 @ 6 o-clock low back lite
Star trails at Northumberlandia.
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vintage pearl wrap skirt made w/ vintage chain danglies and fan clasp of ribbed gold.
All circa : 1950z.
on a vintage black tinkerbelle lamp.
Another trip down to steetley pier, Hartlepool for sunset last night(08-08-2016) and a much shorter exposure than my previous mono shot at the same place.
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Brunnhorn mountain, aka Batman mountain as the storming winds blow the snow across the landscape.
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Outdoor pool at sunrise. North Berwick, East Lothian.
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Unfortunately, we have become a world where things are replaced instead of being repaired. Companies oftentimes make it difficult or impossible to make easy repairs, such as change a power cord, a gasket or switch. It leads to unnecessary replacement and extra garbage being sent to our landfills. We need to go back to more sustainable practices.
It's a clasp knife but also a tool to help you escape if trapped in an auto. The notched blade is for cutting the seat belt and the pointed end is for breaking the car's window.
Shot for Our Daily Challenge :“Clasp”