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Does anyone have an id(ea) as to what it is?
Thanks to Victor W. Fazio III - It's a Striped Meadowhawk (Sympetrum pallipes)
According to my handbook, these are almost impossible to ID so I won't even try.....I was just very happy to find a red one, the first I've seen this area. I do believe it is a Meadowhawk, maybe a Ruby Meadowhawk (thank you Monon for the ID help.) Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!!
this fellow was here last week. I had never seen a RED dragonfly before so have taken numerous pictures..still trying to get pics of the BLUE ones which are quite common here on the Coast of BC.
DSC_7866: As seen at the Atlantic Grand Nationals car show 2013 in downtown Monction yesterday.
Part of my assignment to take interesting car part pictures, given to me by Sue.
We get lots of dragonflies of all colors around our pond. This red dragonfly landed on this iron garden stake, and I love the way the dragonfly echoes both the form and the color of the iron.
Powerless and Speechless, The Anti-Climax -
“Scuse me! EXCUSE ME!” I heard a voice and turned around. Barely noticeable at ankle-level was a mosquito. My natural instinct was to swat so he’ll throw up my blood. I almost did until I realized it was a dragonfly. He was so teeny, a damselfly sick with flu could sneeze him all the way to Nebraska.
“Yes?” I asked cautiously.
“Could you please step aside,” the fly said firmly, “I was enjoying the heat until you came and completely block the rays from me.”
I apologized and studied with great curiosity. His outstretched wings were no larger than my thumbnail.
“You may call me Dandy. I’m the smallest dragonfly in the world.” The fly introduced.
“Wow. Can you execute a handstand and let me snap a picture to show my friends?”
“No problem. The obelisk stance is old-fashioned, the in thing now is the rotund position.” Dandy obliges without a second thought. “I can gymnast my abdomen over the eyes and touch my mouth, much like how a cow licked his horns.”
“Bwahahha! Don’t make me laugh, I don’t believe you.”
Adamant in proving his worth, Dandy proceeds to raise his belly in the air. “Arrgh… … Ugh… Aaargh…”
Tick tock… every passing minute increases my expectation. Will he make it before sunset? Anticipation is a powerful drug. I don’t know how long I sat on my heels, the firebombing sun had boiled the sweat on my forehead. After an hour, my patience was pushed to the limit. All of a sudden his moaning ceased. YES! In the bat of an eye, the unbelievable had happened. With open arms, Dandy demonstrated a perfect “O” posture laterally. My stiff finger clicked the shutter release in frenzy. Alas, in the most glorious moment, I became conscious that my batteries were dead.
24 of 24 – The last picture in my hands is a dragonfly waiting to be free. Thank you so much for showing up, we’ll meet again in December for another good chat. Take care everybody and please continue to take rectangle pictures with your round lens:-D You don’t hear me here because my show is over, but you’ll know I’m pretty next to you there.
Silent Surveillance -
A ruddy-bellied aerialist found rest on a green blade and I spied her from behind with intense interest. Dragonflies can’t fool me, they are always on the lookout for a body to snatch, hunting unerringly as their ancestors are. In the neck of the woods is a brute pretending to be a biddable butterfly. I wonder if humans know, insects are people watcher too. Things that we do and try to hide, dragonflies with CCTV eyes know them all. The red dragon spreads his wings to the furthest length and the outstretched stance reminds me how I relish spreading thick peanut butter on my morning toast.
I also join with the Red Dragonfly in wishing you a great week :-)
Beautiful on black too.
Explore # 488 dated July 29, 2012.
Brilliant flowers at the lighthouse at Cape Forchu near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
Livingstone Daisies - I think.
NASA TV.
Royalty free music from CCMixter.org:
ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/53192
"The Gateway" by Snowflake featuring Jeris, Gurdonark, KaraSquare.
Thanks for all of the great feedback on this photo..it is really appreciated in view of my first attempt at enhancing a photo.. I did post one of these but before I had put any level of post processing on my computer so simply cropped it tighter. Have much to learn... taken in Seim Reap in Cambodia. He is sitting a Lotus seed pod.
After living in Taipei for more than fourteen months, I’ve finally tried enough restaurants here to start pointing out my favorites. My thanks go out to my co-workers for reminding me that I should start recommending what I really like, and to Bob Liu for his suggestions on how to go about it. I intend to follow his example with compilations like this one.
The mosaic above and the list below I did not assemble in order of preference, by the way. Everything you see here I consider very delicious, so balancing the composition mattered more to me than making up a hierarchy of twenty-five dishes from ten restaurants, although I did try to keep foods from the same shops together. Really I just want to eat all of them again soon.
1. 烤鮪魚 (Seared tuna from 魚僮小舖和平店)
2. 蔥花鮪魚丼飯 (散らし, a tuna rice bowl from 魚僮小舖和平店)
3. 紅甘生魚片 (Mackerel from 魚僮小舖和平店)
4. 山海貝柱 &鮪魚生魚片 (Squid and tuna sashimi from 魚僮小舖和平店)
5. 花枝條 (Salted squid with fish eggs from 魚僮小舖和平店)
6. 寿司 (Sushi from 阿吉師)
7. 牛肉丼 (shredded beef rice bowl set from 三大日味屋)
8. 龍蝦沙拉 (lobster salad from 三大日味屋)
9. 花枝卵 (squid salad from 三大日味屋)
10. 鮪魚生魚片 (tuna sashimi from 三大日味屋)
11. 藍帶豬排 + 五辛咖哩醬 (Tonkatsu set from 茄子咖哩, otherwise known as Aubergine)
12. 可樂餅 (from 長壽三好庵)
13. 炸豬排 (Tonkatsu from 長壽三好庵)
14. 鴨肉香蔥烏龍湯麵 (Duck soup from 長壽三好庵,)
15. お好み焼き (“Spicy” Okonomiyaki from 味味亭)
16. 鬱金雞翼 (Chicken wings from 十二燒)
17. 青蒜肥腸卷 (Pork intestines stuffed with green onions from 十二燒)
18. 烤茭白筍 (Bamboo shoots from 十二燒)
19. 牛五花 (Marinated beef from 育顧龍, 日式烤肉)
20. 蛤蠣 (Big clams from 育顧龍, 日式烤肉)
21. 日式炒麵 (Fried noodles from “Red Dragonfly,” also known as “赤とんぼ” or “紅蜻蜓”)
22. 醬燒中卷 (Grilled squid from “Red Dragonfly,” also known as “赤とんぼ” or “紅蜻蜓”)
23. 自製雞肉丸 (Chicken satay from “Red Dragonfly,” also known as “赤とんぼ” or “紅蜻蜓”)
24. 紫蘇豬肉串 (Pork satay from “Red Dragonfly,” also known as “赤とんぼ” or “紅蜻蜓”)
25. 築地銀章魚燒 (“Squid and seafood meatballs” from Gindaco)
Die Feuerlibelle (Crocothemis erythraea) ist eine ursprünglich vor allem afrikanisch und mediterran verbreitete Libellenart aus der Familie der Segellibellen (Libellulidae), die zu den Großlibellen (Anisoptera) gehören. 2011 wurde sie in Deutschland zur Libelle des Jahres gekürt.
Die reifen Männchen der Feuerlibelle sind signalrot, wobei die Intensität der Rotfärbung offenbar mit der Umgebungstemperatur zusammenhängt. Feuerlibellen werden in der Regel zwischen 40 und 45 Millimetern lang. Sie erreichen Flügelspannweiten von 65 bis 70 Millimetern.
Feuerlibellen sind ursprünglich in den warmen Regionen Südeuropas, Afrikas und Vorderasiens verbreitet. In den 1990er-Jahren hat die Art sich auch nach Süddeutschland ausgebreitet, wo sie mittlerweile nicht selten ist. (Quelle: Wikipedia)
Of All the Dragonflies I have seen, this one is prettiest ..
Suits the song from Chris De Burgh -- Lady in Red....
A look around L'Anse Aux Meadows on the very northern-most tip of Newfoundland on June 6th, 2013.
I've been enchanted by the sagas of the Vikings ever since I was a school boy.
In the 1990s I went to Sweden and saw some Viking culture first-hand.
This year my wife and I took a trip to Newfoundland and visited L'Anse Aux Meadows to see the only North American Viking settlement from 1000 AD.
It was a magical experience.
Music: Massive Attack, "Home of the Whale"
NOTE: Since the Flickr upgrade, videos sometimes do not play back on Windows computers because of an integration bug between Windows/Flash/Flickr.
Please feel free to hop on over to YouTube to check it out if you can't see it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=frdQcEF3V5I&feature=youtu.be
Lyrics:
Oh my love he works upon the sea
On the waves that blow wild and free
He splices the ropes and he sets the sail
While southwards he roams to the home of the whale
And he ne'er thinks of me far behind
Or the torments that rage in my mind
He is mine for only part of the year
Then I'm left all alone with only my tears
All ye ladies that smell o' wild rose
Think well on your perfume for where a man goes
Think well on the wives and the babies that yearn
For the man ne'er returned from hunting the sperm [whale]
Gemeine Heidelibelle, Sympetrum vulgatum, ♂, Vagrant darter,
Merkmale zur genaueren Bestimmung:
1. schwarze Querbinde im Gesicht reicht von Auge zu Auge UND läuft an ihnen herunter
2. Beine gestreift, wenn auch wenig auffällig
Albums:
"Dragonflies | Libellen": flic.kr/s/aHsmm17rYM
"Insects | Insekten": flic.kr/s/aHskuEMKoD
DSC_7870: Hood ornament as seen yesterday downtown in Moncton at the Atlantic Grand Nationals car show on Main St during lunch hour.
Part of my series of "interesting car part" assigned to me by Sue.
This photo was taken a few minutes less than two hours ago. Tiny red dragonfly, an inch, perhaps an inch and a quarter long.
Always experiment...always learn. Took the old D7100 out today, along with the Nikkor 60mm Micro, 105mm Micro and 1.4x TC. Wanted to prove to myself that the recent photos have not been solely because of the new camera.
If you shoot Nikon, and are looking to upgrade your camera, but NOT spend the big bucks for a full frame sensor camera...give the D7100 some serious thought. The price is down quite a bit on it now, and it is capable of wonderful work. Further, it does have features not found in any of the other Nikon consumer cameras (D40-D90; D3100-D5200)
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Nikon D7100. Nikkor 105mm Micro. 1/2000th @ f/11. ISO 1250. EV - 2/3