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This red Flame Skimmer has been keeping vigil on a horse tail reed tip in one of my container water gardens. He allowed me to get within inches of his face before flying off, only to return repeatedly to his post.
Escova-de-macaco-alaranjada (Combretum fruticosum) flower, Pancada community, Rio Erepecuru riverbank, Pará state, Brazil.
I don't normally post more than one image a day, but I'm afraid I may fall behind tonight and tomorrow. Things didn't go well at the dentist (what a great title for a song in what passes for "soft jazz" according to Alexa) this morning. Love my dentist. Would recommend him to anyone, but this morning a nerve was hit. "Bullseye!" only that's not exactly what I said. I've doubled my dose of pain med for today, and before I take a 30 minute nap and follow his instructions for "pain management", I thought I'd give y'all a treat of one of my favorite Flame Skimmer images from just two weeks ago.
By itself, you would probably say that the Flame Skimmer is red, but as I tried to show with the image of a Flame and a Cardinal on the same branch, the Flame Skimmer is orange in comparison. It is an omnipresent dragonfly HERE. It's relatively large with a 2.75 inch wingspan, and more than two or three can be seen patrolling the same territory. It was the first Skimmer I tried to capture in flight: it was the third that I actually succeeded capturing in flight almost a year after the Green Darner and the Black Saddlebags.
The flame skimmer or firecracker skimmer (Libellula saturata) is a common dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, native to western North America. Male flame skimmers are known for their entirely red or dark orange body, this includes eyes, legs, and even wing veins. Females are usually a medium or darker brown with some thin, yellow markings. This particular type of skimmer varies in size but is generally measured somewhere between two and three inches long. An immature flame skimmer (nymph) feeds mainly on aquatic insects. Its diet consists of mosquito larvae, aquatic fly larvae, mayfly larvae, freshwater shrimp, small fish, and tadpoles. The nymphs, which live in the mud at the bottom of warm streams or ponds, catch their prey by waiting patiently for it to pass by. Adult skimmers usually feed on moths, flies, ants, or any other soft-bodied insect while waiting perched on a small rock or twig or while in flight. I haven't addressed feeding habits for any dragons or damsels while still nymphs. Many, like the Flame Skimmer, are ambush hunters! Imagine having developed those skills and techniques 330 million years ago, and then being the first animal to fly when it becomes an adult. (Some spend 2-6 years underwater before becoming the fliers they are as adults.)
See you all tomorrow...
Flame Heath
(Stenanthera conostephioides syn. Astroloma conostephioides)
Manning Flora and Fauna Reserve, McLaren Flat, South Australia
This flame burns in a Lantern at the main entry gate to our home. It burns 24 hours a day and always reminds me of a flame of hope for all man kind.
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Made of mithril, this mighty weapon bursts into flames when near a beer bottle :)
Taken for active assignment weekly- show us your curves.
WIT: My strobist experiment went wrong. The opener is back light by a torch, but I spilled some light on the backdrop.
I liked the end result.
Another smoke and flame shot. This one is different, but better?
Not sure..... my brother wanted the other printed and posterised for his wall.
... as Inigo calls her. This was really just an attempt to see just how much ALF I could get in one screen. I hope JJ Abrams is jealous.
K ENB Pure Lights 0.254
Model: Ivory Flame. Questions, comments, discussion and critique always welcome.
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Flame Trooper features Custom helmet and waterslide decals. A modded CAC flamethrower with removable flame.
Thanks to Apples for the NEW dark orange Arealight helmet!
I think I put it to good use.
Thought of taking this shot may be a thousand times but then again thought wouldn't it be 'Cliche'?? Of course.. we've seen such shots being taken several times during our journey. Most taken during the early stages of photography when everything looked 'WOW' and we just waited for the next shot. Everything seemed to be a potential 'Subject' and the world looked so beautiful. Then we start getting matured (Thought I am not, yet!) and a single subject in a single frame doesn't always attract us. We start getting complicated thoughts after reading all those articles and journals and all those rules, after seeing all those beautiful works of others' and so on.. The end result... we start losing the subjects.. All that seemed beautiful once doesn't look the same.. But I feel, that virgin beauty is always there and everything around us has a beauty of its own.. Sometimes we see and sometimes we ignore.. The flame is always burning..