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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...

Flames by Fawzan Hasan

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I can't help myself, I keep playing with fire

Red Light District by Trish Page

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Flames... by Pantelis Sampanis

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Since i was a young boy, i liked to watch the fire for hours...

Project 365 - 6/17/2017 - 168/365 by Cathy Scola

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Playing with matches

ODC - 6/17/2017 - The heat is on

Like a moth to a flame. by jαγ △

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I found this candle and incense set in my cupboard when I was packing. It's really pretty :D

I was going to try and take a picture of me in the rain today, but I tried for about 2 minutes, then gave up because it was too cold.

I had my first day at uni today. I met this really nice girl called Debbie, who is almost exactly like me :P I also met Katie, who was a really nice chatty person, and...Tom, i think, is really cool (: Oh, and the first kid i met was Harley, who apparently has a tattoo on his forearm but he wouldnt let anyone see it. So now the whole class wants to see it :P

So theres over 400 people doing the same course this year, so we were seperated into groups. I'm group five, and our tutor is called Mel. There are no formal names there, its all on a first name basis. The head is called Stuart Bartholemew, but I've decided i'm going to called him Bart.

We had this lecture that went on for ages, and I nearly fell asleep. Well, i think i did for about two minutes. This week is induction week, then we do two weeks of intense drawing, and then we do a load of rotation weeks where we experiment with every kind of pathway. It's quite exciting.

The crappiest thing was that at the end of the day, I waited for my friend Seb for a good twenty minutes in the pissing rain, and then he called saying he'd already walked home. So I had to cycle and navigate my way home by myself. I was drenched when I got in.

But all in all it was a good day. I can't wait until we actually start doing something. We start that tomorrow. But I've got a very busy day tomorrow, starts with an induction telling us how to use the computers - they're all apple macs. then after lunch we have workshop for an hour and a half, and then we've got screening, which'll determine what our 'learning style' is :/ then ive got to go to the bank and run some errands. Busybusybusy!

Oh yeah, I've been tagged like a-million times.

1) I went back home on Saturday.

2) It was really quite strange. I'd only been gone for three days and my sister has officially kicked me out my room. xD

3) The travel back to Bournemouth had to be one of the most annoying journeys ever.

4) By the time I got back, all I wanted to do was sleep.

5) When I got home today, I got my first bill. Oooh. It was only £1.94, but still.

6) I also watched Kiki's Delivery Service.

7) That film has to be the best witch film ever.

8) I love Studio Ghibli.

9) Kiki reminds me of Melody.

10) I still have to see Ponyo.

Orange flame by Annika Eriksson

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Flame Skimmer Dragonfly by Ruby 2417

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Davis, Ca. June, 2025.

flames by Alosh Bennett

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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.

Candle by Elena GEm Ferrara

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Flame azalea. by Jeanne

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Flames by Susanne Nilsson

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My contribution to Fotosöndag/Photo Sunday on the theme ljuskälla/light source

Flame of Fire by Russ Seidel

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Vlammen by -Ebelien-

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Flames

four flames by nerissa's ring

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Flame by Feriel FLO

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Flame trooper by minifigmaker

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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.

flame-8.jpg by paul oboczky

Flame by kate westmoreland

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Flame by onefastvr6

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Someone making a bead over a flame.

Fire by Nick Watts

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Norwegian flames. I fooled with the white balance when converting from RAW, but apart from that and the crop, this is a straight shot.

Flame by Raiyan Ahmed

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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..

Flame... by NAHRO RUNO

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Flame Skimmer by Dave Johnson

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Sailor Bar, American River Parkway / Sacramento County, California

Wayward Flame 00017 by Thomas Simmonds

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Wayward Flame, see more in my blog here! thomascolesimmondsphotography.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/wayw...

or on my website: www.tomsimmonds.com/waywardflame

Model: Sara Grabek

Wig: Annabelle's Wigs

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