The beauty of the small things in nature can never be fully described!
They tell me that I could easily turn this amount of pictures into 4 posts by simply dividing the pictures up into shorter posts. The benefit would be that we can earn more if we do four posts per day.
I am one of those that believes in quality and I am not saying here that those that do many posts each day are not quality conscious, but I am rather saying that I am happy with the longer posts.
Each of us have to do what satisfies us in respect to each other's differences and we simply have to do what it is that satisfies each of us.
Come and have a look at our summer colors here!
The "Cape Skimmer" dragonfly in the first picture landed here on this cactus plant in our garden.
I set my camera on "Macro" and carefully crept up to him.
Dragonflies can see all around them and one has to act very slowly, as they can take off in an instant!
An Acraea butterfly above enjoying the early morning sun!
This little guy is gathering nesting materials!
Here we have the "Eastern Blacktail" dragonfly species resting for a moment!
He flipped up and landed in another spot and I got him before he disappeared!
I have three shots here of the blue "Elusive Skimmer" dragonflies, but have split them to show you two species of Damselflies below!
This is called a "Pallid Spreadwing" damselfly. Their wings are transparent in flight!
And this little beauty is called a "Masai Sprite" damselfly!
This is the female of the blue male "Cape Skimmer" dragonfly species!
Here and below are the other two shots of the male "Cape Skimmer" dragonfly!
Finally a lovely yellow succulent flower...with a worker inside...to end the post!
I regularly return to dragonfly photography to keep my eye in, as when I got my first camera a few years ago, I trained myself by choosing to shoot dragonflies. Not easy, guaranteed, but once the art of shooting dragonflies is mastered, one can get clearer shots of the bigger things in flight.
Compared to a dragonfly, a falcon or other big bird is much slower and easier to capture on camera. Although I have to say that a Peregrine Falcon in a full speed dive is almost impossible to get on camera.
Experience has taught me that in life, if one takes care of the small things, the big things become so much easier to handle. The problem of course is that many of us regard the small things as inferior, or irritations and we tend to either rush through them, or avoid them. But think about it this way, a mighty pen with the wrong small nib is useless. A big .45 Colt revolver with a 9mm bullet is useless. A car without a key, a ship without a rudder, I think that you catch my drift here. The smallest thing of the human body, the tongue, is what causes us so much trouble.
Get the small things right and everything else will fall into place.
Think about it!
Note: The specie information of the dragonflies and damselflies were taken from my book.
Source; Dragonflies and Damselflies of South Africa by Warwick & Michele Tarboton.
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Wow!! You have a book on dragonflies!!
That’s really cool :)
Great shotd as always
So well said here and of course true my friend.
We see so many different types of dragonflies that I just had to get a book to identify them. Most people will do it on the internet, but I am old school and like to use books.
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Cape skimmer is gorgeous, not having water close by I am missing my outdoor pond with lily flowers, would have made for good photography now that I have time outdoors.
Always remember the small things in life, very good advice Stephen.
Funny that you should mention an outdoor pond my friend, as we are also discussing a water feature here. But I will have to find a water tank to catch the rain water to supply the fountain.
Will see what I can do about it!
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Stick with a pond small enough to clean, we had fish and attracted a choir of frogs each year.
When the large pond had to be dismantled and fish found new homes we put in a smaller water feature on the opposite site of the house for the birds to swim in now.
Still takes a pump to push water up 1M rock feature type pond which birds do enjoy taking a shower under, oh monkeys come to drink from it too....
Beautiful shots! I was found their wings mesmerizing. They make me think of fairies and magic.
Thank you and the wings certainly have magical connotations especially when they fly in the bright sunlight.
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Howdy again sir papilloncharity! Absolutely stunning dragonfly photos! So true about the tongue too, the most difficult to master!
Greetings Sir @janton, I love to shoot the drags Lol.
The tongue is indeed mankind's downfall!
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Yes sir, people have no idea how powerful it is and most are constantly declaring their own downfall by complaining all the time and unwittingly programming their future.
Hahaha, Sir @janton, some people are masters at the "twisting" of the tongue. Especially politicians Lol.
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So true. I pray for politicians but it's very difficult to like them!
You don't have to like them my friend.
But praying for them is indeed the answer.
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Exactly. I love alot of people that I don't like! lol.
I've always been fascinated by dragonflies! Thank you for your post.
Thank you and glad that you liked the dragonfly shots my friend.
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