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Darter dragonfly on my finger. Having got the dragonfly used to me being there, I persuaded it to walk onto my finger where it stayed for about 3 minutes whilst I took photographs. Natural light
In spite of living in a city that's not public transit friendly, I'm glad we have the DART.
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JOC DART, NOU, CLASIC, CU SAGETI CU VARF DE METAL. PLACA E ACOPERITA CU UN FEL DE CATIFEA ASPRA, CU INSERTII DIN METAL. DIAMETRUL TINTEI ESTE DE 38cm.
This male Common Darter favoured a particular perch and allowed me to approach closely and to set my tripod up. As the insect wasn't side on I decided to take lots of images focussing at different points and I was then able to merge these images later in photoshop. This method enables you to shoot at f5 to blur the background and keep your shutter speed up but still retain a front to back sharp insect.
The Darter, sometimes known as a Shag or Snake Bird, often swims with only the snake-like neck showing above the water. Similar in appearance to cormorants, it has a much longer neck and more pointed bill.
Mary River National Park, Australia #0259
9 October 2016
from Simply Knitting November issue 2007 by Alan Dart, he is not finished, but at the cute wants to be photo'd stage
Comparison shot between a common darter and a black darter.......some of you know commons are not the largest of dragons at a couple or so inches long. In this shot you can see the blacks are much smaller. The male black in this shot is one of the larger ones but still much smaller in the body than the common. And the fly.......it just didn't want to be left out :-)
Haven't been out much of late........suffering on the bed of near death with the dreaded man cold..... the worst thing in the known universe for all men :-(
Was feeling the need yesterday afternoon to get out take in some fresh air......there is only so much trash TV you can watch before brain death sets-in.
So walking like a zombie extra from all the trash TV.... I took to the heaths.
Still a good number of sand and common lizards about trying to make the most of the intermittent sunshine. It's really good to see a good number of both young common and sand lizards. Depending on the weather we should still be able to see lizards for another week or two before they settle down for the winter.
On the dragonfly front still managed to see southern and migrant hawkers, commons and black darters about. Again it the weather holds some of these should still be with us for a few more weeks, commons are normally the last to go with sightings into early Nov still possible.