Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

This was a fun morning. Off to the Singapore Botanic Garden - and the lotus pond where dragonflies and damselflies tend to congregate. A pink lotus core

Pink Lotus

Another view

A white flower (with a crab spider crawling around)

The crab spider

A bee

Crane fly Gonomyia

Side view of a female (?) Gonomyia

I am playing with flash and altering the white balance to reduce the harsh colors seen with flash - female Gonomyia

A damselfly in the usual configuration

From behind

This guy (a male) was sitting on the tip of this something - and then started flexing his thorax - as if preparing for mating - Up

Down in the half heart configuration. When damselflies mate, they form an inverted heart

Here is the mating position - seen last March 12 at the same place. Note the inverted heart formed by the coupled male (left) and female (right)

Return to the standard rest position

Another damselfly with the sun behind me

The same damselfly with the sun before me - a nice silhouette - can easily see the open mouth

Heliconia

C. Frank Starmer

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