Saturday 27 September 2008

Camera critters: Dragonfly

koundoura hania chania

A red dragonfly posing just for me; Koundoura, Paleohora, Hania.

27 comments:

  1. haha, I'm the first, Maria! And nice shot~

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  2. Smooth delicate dragonfly
    On knobby strong rebar
    ...
    Wish I could remember how to write haiku. Your post inspires it.

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  3. The dragonfly looks the same relative size as Roan's hummingbird the other day.
    Very colourful.

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  4. great shot

    Please drop at my CC post also : in HERE Thanks

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  5. Thanks for your shuk/agora comment. Here our smallest money is a 10 agora coin. The shekel has 100 agorot. Wonder if there is a linguistic connection.

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  6. My age moved us, Maria. There is a link in the 'View' text to a critter's name - Guillemot, that explains all.

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  7. This is a perfect shot of the dragonfly. Thanks for your visit. For me the kookaburra is also an interesting bird. We heard them many times. They sound like a group of monkeys.

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  8. Beautiful action shot! My entry is here

    Stop by if you have a moment. :)

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  9. Sorry, youve lost me with 'wop-wops'.

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  10. Great capture nice and close.

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  11. that's a nice shot, maria! mine's up, too. have a nice weekend in Hania!

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  12. It's not easy to capture a dragonfly. good job!

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  13. ...Whew! Ah relief, upon a second and closer look, a dragonfly rather than the fire service helicopter with a dangling water bucket in tow.

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  14. and quite a pose it is. Makes you wonder how they can stay balanced like that. Nice critter :)

    My Camera Critters is here

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  15. Hello

    That's a great dragonfly picture...hope it was not snatched by some crow in the next instant :-)

    Thanks for your comments in my picasa album.

    (Just so you know, i do notice your notes in my "comments" section :-) )

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  16. Love the red dragonfly against the blue sky. Beautiful photo!

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  17. I have not seen one here this year. I like the one you saw and photographed.

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  18. What a flamboyant looking dragonfly! And I think its stance is accentuated by the horizontal straightness of the fenceline! Terrific shot!

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  19. approach and landing great sandy

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  20. Dear kiwi I've just found out that our "kingdom" is the same: our kitchen fitments. So when you cook or have a cup of coffee in your kitchen think that your friend Marina does exactly the same in a kitchen like yours!

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  21. Hi Mediterranean Kiwi! Don't know how I landed here (probably through Dina), but was happy to discover your blog. Further to some quite interesting stories, it shows some interesting pictures of a place I like a lot: Crete and Hania! Amazingly, my last post at Blogtrotter is exactly on «Back to Chania»! Of course, that's a view of a tourist visiting the town, but I hope to have made justice to your town.
    This year we were thinking of lodging some days in Hania and getting to Elafonisi; didn't make it, but there will be another year... ;))
    Have a great week!

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  22. We have had a lot of dragonflies here lately but none as colorful and I can't imagine I could have captured a photo of them. Yours is very nice.

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  23. Very pretty. And so nice of it to allow you to include that pink flower in the background!

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