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Lat.: Calopteryx virgo ♀
En.: Beautiful demoiselle ♀
De.: Blauflügel-Prachtlibelle ♀
Fr.: Caloptéryx vierge ♀
Obere Belpau, Belp, Schweiz / Switzerland
A female beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo, Blauflügel-Prachtlibelle) that I found close to a retention reservoir at the Duvenstedter Brook nature reserve in the north-east of Hamburg, Germany.
The beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) is a European damselfly belonging to the family Calopterygidae. It is often found along fast-flowing waters where it is most at home...Calopteryx virgo can reach a body length of 49–54 millimetres (1.9–2.1 in), with a length of hindwings of 31–37 millimetres (1.2–1.5 in). These large, dark damselflies have small hemispherical eyes located laterally on the head, two pairs of wings similar in shape and a slender abdomen
Part of my Zodimap project, I'm photographing all the Zodiacs. Each one is a mosaic of images captured at 85mm, each image is a stack of 10! So they take a fair bit of time to shoot and process. So far I have captured 10, and processed 8.
When astrometry solver doesn't work, do it yourself! (stopped labelling after this modest effort, the image is quite poor anyway)
Demoiselle / Zygoptère de l'ordre des Odonates.
Sud de la France, département du Var (83).
Femelles de Caloptéryx vierge, Calopteryx virgo, Beautiful damselfly.
In the background Virgo the flagship of Star Cruises.
Princes Pier is a 580 metre long historic pier on Port Phillip, in Princes Pier, adjacent to Station Pier in Port Phillip Bay, is one of Melbourne’s most important cultural assets both as an exemplar of a pre-containerised shipping facility and as a place rich in Australia’s wartime, maritime and multicultural history. Words by Steve Brown, design director, NDYLIGHT.
Built between 1912 and 1915, it was constructed by the Melbourne Harbour Trust as a second railway pier in Port Melbourne, The pier was designed to handle both cargo and passengers, and also boasted office accommodation for customs officers and shipping companies as well as waiting room for passengers with moveable gangways making it safer and more comfortable to board or disembark.
Originally known as 'New Railway Pier', it was renamed Princes Pier in 1921 in honour of the royal visit by the Prince of Wales. The pier’s iconic two-level timber Gatehouse was added in 1935 to enable better monitoring of cargo and traffic on to and off of the pier.
Princes Pier is a heritage listed structure, and was the departure point for Australian troops during the First and Second World Wars, and also the arrival point for American troops during the Second World War. In a significant peacetime role, it was the first landing point in Australia for post-war migrants — more than one million between 1947 and 1969.
After the containerization boom and the last of the migrant ships in 1969 the pier became run-down and was decommissioned in 1985. It suffered severe deterioration over the next two decades, until in 2006 the Victorian Government decided Princes Pier would not be left to rot and committed $34 million to its restoration.
an image taken for the 2011 Zodiac calendar for the wonderful wallpaper company Fromental
the background is one of the beautiful designs scaled to Blythe, hand painted silk wallpaper
tomadas en el curso del Camino de Santiago de Portugal entre O Pobo y Pontevedra en el rio Tomeza. Este insecto es un bioindicador de la pureza del agua. Su larva no sobrevive sin niveles de oxigeno optimos. Habia cantidad, salo habia que pararse para observar. Con tiempo, un tripode y paciencia se podrían hacer fotos de concurso.
The Virgo Galaxy Cluster with diffuse intracluster light (ICL).
Total exposure time: 36h 35min
Borg ED101 with STL11000M
larger versions and more info on that:
hay que aprovechar el breve instante en el que abren las alas tras posarse, lo hacen unas dos o tres veces para después dejarlas cerradas.