Friday, September 17, 2010

16 17/ 9/10






blue tiled damsel here you can see how small they are next to a fag butt.






lots of dragons again today but only saw 5 species



blue tailed damselfly in macro

Sunday, September 5, 2010

September dragons and damsels

10 different dragons Today



















This one bellow has to be the smallest of the dragonflies I have seen to date.




showing how small the blue tailed damsels are

Friday, September 3, 2010

chest deep in the polluted nile river

Bubbles in the Nile

A bubble from the camara lens when switched on under waterl

This is the prompt for an underwater shot of the dragonfly it kept coming back to land on this piece of reed , but its sods law that when I got close enough it went to another landing place,



no decent shots of the red tailed skimmer dragonfly,
the blue damsels where much more obliging got to within 6" to take the next shots while I was up to my chest in the Nile river


Laying its eggs just below water line