All of the images get larger if you click on them and this Red Darter really does look more impressive if you do so!
It was nice of him to stay still for his pictures!
Cheers, Tom.
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brokendownangel
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SeasideMan
Pro - 11/09/09 @ 13:59:00
I felt very privileged to be able to take these pictures. It was in my own garden, sat on a stone sundial just sunbathing. They really are astonishingly beautiful.
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BREEAMER
- 11/09/09 @ 13:32:42
Great pictures! Last time I was in Cornwall I got some shots of a Golden Ringed Dragonfly eating a bee!
My wife and I were just walking along and it flew around us a couple of times then landed on a plant nearby. When I moved in for a closer look it had a bee catcht in its legs and appeared to be devouring the bee's head!
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 13:57:48
Wow, I'd love to have seen that! Perhaps you could post some of your pictures some time. I'd love to see them and I'm sure others would too.
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BREEAMER
- 11/09/09 @ 14:14:37
I'll try and load some up this weekend, just as soon as I figure out how to do it!
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 14:19:57
Great, good luck!
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la_spice
- 11/09/09 @ 15:55:01
Excellent - how fortunate that they stayed still long enough for you to get some great shots.
PS - now I know what your pompom hat reminds me of - you Red Darter you!!!
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 17:20:23
I wish I was as beautiful as a Red Darter...
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WildWitch
- 11/09/09 @ 15:55:43
Ok im jelous now. I took a walk this morning purposly to take pics of these beautiful little creatures, do you think i could find one that wasnt flying at 1000 miles per hour?
Supersonic hyper active dragon flies are not good subjects for photographs.
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 17:21:40
I've never seen one sit still for more than a few seconds before. This one didn't move for about a minute, allowing me to get nice and close in for some good shots. It was sunbathing!
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WildWitch
- 11/09/09 @ 18:20:53
I used to see loads sitting still at Kingsbury water park near where i used to live. Maybe dragonflies in the midlands are more laid back than their Welsh cousins ;-) Cornish ones sit for hours on a lilly pad too, just never had my camera ready though.
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 19:20:58
Perhaps I should visit the Midlands then - it's not far!
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WildWitch
- 11/09/09 @ 19:25:48
oh yes, go for Kingsbury water park or cannock chase, beautiful places.
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Fantastic Tom! Those wings are fabulous....
Thanks! 
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 17:22:51
I'm rather chuffed!
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LittleBop
- 11/09/09 @ 16:11:45
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 17:19:27
I felt special :-)
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jenray
Pro - http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 11/09/09 @ 18:31:34
super pics...I don't recall ever seeing a red dragon fly...certainly was obliging by staying still for you...
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 19:39:51
I was very lucky indeed - perfect conditions.
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jenray
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- 11/09/09 @ 19:52:51
have you seen my Reflections on Photography group...I'm quite pleased how they came out...
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 20:06:41
I'll go have a look - I'm a bit behind today.
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- 11/09/09 @ 20:07:12
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Middleagedbloke
Pro - 11/09/09 @ 18:36:08
Still setting the standards Tom. Fantastic.
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 19:40:45
Cheers - I was expecting to just see flowers when I went into the garden!
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catsInVienna
- 11/09/09 @ 19:43:05
Wow! Great pictures. There are beautiful insects and I think it knows this and that is the reason that it not move. Smile!
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 19:43:58
Good thinking - it was showing off!
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catsInVienna
- 11/09/09 @ 19:46:42
lol
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catsInVienna
- 11/09/09 @ 19:44:24
The red spots on their flies are lovely, it was interesting to know what reason they have.
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 20:05:52
On their wings, you mean? There must be a good reason for them, but I don't know what it is.
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catsInVienna
- 11/09/09 @ 20:15:54
Oh yes, thank you I mean their wings. Maybe I will find it out.
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jollyweez
- 11/09/09 @ 19:47:17
Oh! I've got to show David these dragonflies when he wakes-up from his nap. He has been replacing rotted-out fence parts, for the past week. He always takes a nap after lunch!
David likes them because if he stays still, either in the pool or outside pool, they will perch on his upright finger!
We have so many here, all different colours and sizes.
Our very favourite is a dazzling blue!
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 20:08:00
Wow, I'd love to have one perch on my finger! Replacing fence posts is a hard job - he deserves his nap!
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jollyweez
- 11/09/09 @ 22:12:21
David says that the next to last one,
looks like a helicopter!
He says they are beautiful, and a very intricate 'machine.'
We just took a swim! Pool temp down to 85F now.
That can be chilly with the wind blowing.
I like exactly 90F!
We have had heavy rainstorms AT LAST, this week.
The Cicadas have been going mad every evening! What a racket.
Soon, the water in the pool will be too cold
to swim, until next April/May 2010.
Can you believe? 2010.....wow!
Hope you are having decent evening, with your two pals.
All the news channels and the newspaper are full
of 9/11 stuff. The Brits did not go to pieces everytime London was blown up by the IRA!
They just went to work as usual.
Brits are still very special people.
JW xx
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 22:26:52
I can see what he means, it does look like a helicopter!
For me, 85F is still pretty hot for a pool. When I used to be a lifeguard in an indoor heated pool, it was kept at a constant 82F. Even that felt warm if you were swimming hard in it. 90F would feel like a bath for me!
When the bombs went off in London on the Underground a few years ago, I was working just outside London. Two of my colleagues were on the tube before the one that got blown up. 4 minutes later and they would have been blown up. They arrived at work and carried on as if nothing had happened.
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jollyweez
- 12/09/09 @ 16:36:16
With 90F, I am spoilt rotten! In mid-summer this year, however, the temp rose to 95F and it made me think of lobsters being boiled alive!
The heat made me faint, and I had to go back inside the house!
So, you do see what I mean about the Brits 'carrying on as usual!'
We have to give it to us.
We Brits are in a class of our own!
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SeasideMan
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- 12/09/09 @ 17:01:40
*shudder* 95F would completely stop me from functioning!
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playwrite27
- http://www.davidtennant.blog.co.uk
- 11/09/09 @ 20:20:30
Wow, Tom, you've outdone yourself. That's amazing!
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 20:40:18
Thanks very much Nancy. We get quite a few dragonflies round here because of the bog at the back, but normally they don't stop. I was lucky to catch this one taking a few rays!
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- 11/09/09 @ 20:49:26
Absolutely fabulous
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 20:52:37
Thankyou, joylouise. Welcome to BCUK!
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rich8980
- 11/09/09 @ 21:00:07
Fabulous detail!!!! that wing looks like a spiders web up close. ironic that a spiders web may one day be his/her downfall! although i presume s/he would be too big for any spider web?
Rich-
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SeasideMan
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- 11/09/09 @ 21:06:44
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SeasideMan
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- 12/09/09 @ 15:48:57
Hi Liz, they look delicate but I think they are surprisingly sturdy.
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BREEAMER
- 13/09/09 @ 00:00:10
Bah, still can't get these freaking pictures up, how do you do it?
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SeasideMan
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- 13/09/09 @ 00:05:44
My profile --> Media, then click on upload.
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antlady69
Pro - http://antmusic-forever.blog.co.uk
- 13/09/09 @ 12:25:53
Amazing photos! And I bet he was just waiting for you to take them and publish them here so he would become famous!!
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SeasideMan
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- 13/09/09 @ 12:27:58
He's not been back since - must be swanning round with celebrities now, all la-di-da!
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safriz
- http://www.conspiror.blog.co.uk
- 14/09/09 @ 01:47:45
he was an attention seeker dragon fly.now he must be on the front page of "fly news"
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SeasideMan
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- 14/09/09 @ 08:25:25
Celeb Insect News?
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WoW so beautiful and delicate, amazing pictures. You never cease to amaze me x