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The blue dasher is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is very common and widely distributed through North America and into the Bahamas.
The nature Trail was full of dragonflies after the rain, what an opportunity to shoot some eyes for the theme in Marco Mondays.
Shot taken with my 5yr old Samsung Galaxy with a cheap clip on Marco lens (SGD 4.90). Very shallow DOF and I really need to hold my breathe shooting this.
Many CN Dash-8s have already gone to the scrapper so news that a pair were leading #148 got me on the highway towards Hamilton to intercept them at Hamilton West coming off the hill into Bayview. Bonus for the 15th anniversary leader.
Earlier in the morning I shot westbound counterpart #149 with a pair of CN's newest GEVOs in the lead, this is a bit of a change.
What's an ode season without Blue Dashers?? Dragonhunters are now out at the wetlands - more soon. N Georgia
Here's another skimmer, I'm pretty sure a (western) Blue Dasher. If he looks like he's in the same habitat as the Flame Skimmer posted earlier, he is. In fact, they were sharing or vying for the same leaf.
C-GUJV, a De Havilland Canada DHC-8-402 Dash 8-400, launching off runway 33 at Downsview Airport in Toronto, Ontario. "Dande" was departing as DHC4632 (De Havilland Canada) on a 2.5 hour test flight.
Serial number 4632 was due to become D2-TFF with TAAG - Linhas Aereas de Angola, E.P. at Luanda, Angola. It would become TAAG's sixth Dash 8-400.
This airframe was the second last Dash 8 to be built before production was paused. De Havilland would eventually vacate this site, where it had been operating for 93 years. No date has been set for a resumption of Dash 8 manufacturing.
Must be a late bloomer. This Blue Dasher dragonfly has no tears in his wings, and his colors are vibrant. With such colors so very late in the season, my only guess is that he didn't emerge until early September.
Just a simple portrait of CSXT / Pan Am train POED (Rigby to East Deerfield manifest) tied down on Main 1 taken looking east from the Farley Road crossing at MP 373.6 on District 3 of the Freight Mainline, the former Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division.
This was my first time seeing for myself the recently repainted CSXT 9280, a GE C40-8 originally blt. Aug. 1990 as CSXT 762. It was sold to Pan Am in 2017 in a GE brokered deal and became MEC 7627 but remained in tattered patched YN2 paint until being reacquired by its former owner. This is the first and only Pan Am unit to be repainted so far, and the only one of the model once purged from the road's roster that wears the current CSXT image.
Wendell, Massachusetts
Thursday October 20, 2022
An Ichneumon Wasp waking up to face the morning.
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The Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) is a dragonfly of the skimmer family. It is common and widely distributed in the United States.
Mature males develop a bluish-white pruinescence on the back of the abdomen and, in western individuals, on the thorax. They display this pruinescence to other males as a threat while defending territories at the edge of the water.
Although the species name longipennis means "long wings", the wings are not substantially longer than those of related species. Females do, however, have a short abdomen that makes the wings appear longer in comparison.
Huntington Library and Botanic Gardens. San Marino. California.
A blue dasher dragonfly (Pachydiplax longipennis) enjoys a leafy respite.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
14 June 2024.
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The 367-80 was a prototype aircraft developed to prove Boeing's ability to produce a jet airliner and aerial refueling tanker. It's one of my favorite aircraft at the Udvar-Hazy center.
The model is at ~1/64 scale, similar to last year's B-52 and RC-2 airliner. It took about a month and a half to build, and it's my second largest aircraft at 3,355 parts.
Canon FD lens adapted via Metabones
South Pond, Lincoln Park - Chicago, IL
July 2021
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This beautiful dragonfly appears to be an immature Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis). This individual was living in early May at Jones Lake State Park in North Carolina and was a fantastic model for the camera. During the photo session, we witnessed the animal hunting and eating a number of flying insects. This animal seems to prefer to perch on this stick as it waited to identify prey insects passing by.
Here are a few references:
www.migratorydragonflypartnership.org/index/identificatio...
Norfolk Southern train 34A rolls through CP Harris with an old D8-40C leading. The former Conrail Dash 8 is running the edge of Harrisburg's old 8th Ward, a former tightly-packed Harrisburg neighborhood full of the cities' poorest residents. It was leveled in 1917 according to www.old8thward.com. Today it is dominated by parking garages, office buildings and apartment buildings; the only thing that appears to still be in the same place is the railroad.
Amtrak 160 leads the Beech Grove segment of Amtrak’s Cardinal at Lafayette Junction, wearing the heritage “Dash 8 Phase III” scheme in the “Pepsi Can” livery that many Dash 8s on the Amtrak roster wore upon delivery. With a lot of actual Dash 8s being on this train in the area over the last year, this is the closest we will get to getting this scheme back, not on a real dash 8 unfortunately (4/2/25).
What makes this Blue Dasher unusual is that he has so much color this late in the years. Even the yellow patch stands out. Ten minutes after I took this, I got a shot of a Blue Dasher that looked a little worse for wear and not half as vibrant.
A quartet of classy TTI B36-7s lead a 94 car loaded coal train through Millersburg, KY along Leer street. For fans of classic GEs, you just cant beat this railroad. The clean white and blues get down to business and pour on the sand to climb one of many hills they will encounter on their trip to Maysville.