Dragonflies shedding their skin, gaining the skill of flight...
(Posting title is from the poem her tin skin by Evie Shockley.)
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Cut away from me everything but the semblance of tender
Friday, June 21, 2013
Less your laughter, that I love
I'm still posting photographs from last Saturday at Vaakkoi, where I went walking with my daughter. It was a good day to be in the forests, +20 °C, so it wasn't too hot, and wind which kept the mosquitoes away.
This weekend we will have warm weather, up to +22...+25 °C, which is quite nice for Midsummer celebrations. But the Finnish tradition of alcohol consumption together with other habits (such as using the boat or swimming when drunk) practically guarantee that there will be some not-so-pleasant news items during the weekend.
(Posting title is from the poem A Celebration of Charis: I. His Excuse for Loving by Ben Jonson.)
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
O nymph reserved
Last Saturday I walked with my oldest daughter in the forests at Vaakkoi, and by the lake Vaakkoi we found a dragonfly nymph shedding its skin to become a young adult dragonfly. Or rather it was my daughter with her keen eyes who spotted what was happening. I'm not sure about the species, though.
(Posting title is from the poem Ode to Evening by William Collins.)
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
The first I ever loved can still incite such desperation
On Wednesday I have a meeting starting at 6:30 AM, and it will be a long day. Thus I have prepared this posting in advance, to appear while I'm being busy at work, as I'm probably too tired to even think about photographs at the end of the day.
The photograph shows a fellow who kept busy most of the time, but somehow it all seemed so effortless, and there was even a short pause in the flying to allow me to take a photograph.
(Posting title is from the poem Submission by Lynn Crosbie.)
Monday, June 10, 2013
Oh, that is a lover for me
Here is a tale of damselflies, a pair and a third one hovering around. Taken on Saturday at lake Saaren-Musta at Vaakkoi, while walking there with the daughters.
(Posting title is from the poem The Unfortunate Damsel by Mrs. Fleetwood Habergham.)
Sunday, September 2, 2012
And there's always a gap between you and reality
At the Kurkijärvi lake I found an old friend, a Brown Hawker (Aeshna grandis) laying eggs. It was eager and focused, and allowed to approach close with the camera. There was an earlier encounter two years ago, and then I managed to get an even cleaner short of her.
(Posting title is from the poem Smells by Bei Dao.)
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Bugs - and a squirrel
I went for an evening walk today, to the pond which is depicted in the photo book Treasure Pond. I caught some bugs, and a squirrel, with the camera.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Getting late in the summer
Here are six photographs taken on a late afternoon walk in nearby forests and fields. It is getting late in the summer, and that shows in the bugs and plants.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Like an old, grand friend
Like last year, I encountered a Brown Hawker (Aeshna grandis) at a nearby pond, and it allowed to approach very close with a camera. It (she) was laying eggs, which I guess too all her attention.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Dragonfly gathering
There were quite a lot of dragonflies at a nearby pond, finding mates and laying eggs. Busy time for them...
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Meeting a dragonfly at the treasure pond
I returned to the pond of which I wrote yesterday. Today I noticed a dragonfly moving around in the sunshine. Libellula quadrimaculata is one of the most common ones. Having a bit more reach to the zoom of the LX3 would be nice, as I didn't manage to get as near as I would have liked.
This pond is not natural. It is man-made, to compensate another man-made thing. Namely, the nearby marshes have ditches, from which quite a lot of peat was floating to a lake. The pond was made to improve the water quality in the lake by allowing the silt to settle on the bottom of the pond before reaching the lake.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Fields of summer
We have had sunny and warm weather, good for both flowers and insects. A fast start for the summer.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Damselfly
Last Sunday I returned to the pond where I took photographs of a Brown Hawker, but didn't get lucky again.
Today I tried the pond once again, and got lucky. There was an Emerald Damselfly which stayed in place long enough to take some photographs. And it even returned to the same spot for some more. This is much smaller than the Brown Hawker, but beautiful nevertheless. Both are common here in Finland.
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