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Nature Photography - Singapore Odonata

I love nature and have taken up nature photography as my hobby in October 2007. Dragonflies and Damselflies are one of my favourite subjects and I would like to dedicate this blog on these beautiful creatures. Most of the information such as their IDs are extracted from experienced bloggers listed on my Useful Links such as Mr Tang, Dragonchaser, Matinggeckos, Mr Choong etc. They are all experts in Odonata and I enjoy reading their blogs.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Damselfly (21) - Unidentified species
Family : Coenagrionidae
Species : Montonagrion
ID : Pending further examination

(Male, Pulau Ubin, 25 Oct 09)

(Female, Pulau Ubin, 25 Oct 09)

(Female close-up, Pulau Ubin, 25 Oct 09)

Posted by Anthony Quek at 12:06 PM

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Fact and Info ...

Dragonflies and Damselflies are insects belonging to the Order Odonata. Dragonflies belong to the suborder of Anisotera and Damselflies belong to the suborder of Zygoptera.

As of January 2009, there are 117 species in Singapore of which 76 are dragonflies and 41 are damselflies. I would be more than happy if I could collect 50% of each category.

When I was a kid ...

I used to catch dragonflies & damselflies when I was a boy mostly using my bare hands. For some species that are very skittish, I would put on “sticky glue” at the tip of a long stick to catch it. When I started learning to shoot nature photography, dragonfly was also the first moving subject that, even with my mediocre skills, I was able to get quite pleasing results. They are photogenic creatures that I find relatively easy to photograph. By the way, when I was a kid, I actually thought that damselflies are babies of dragonflies ;-)

Blog Archive

▼ 2009 (38)
- ▼ October (2)
  - Damselfly (21) - Unidentified species Family : Coe...
  - Dragonfly (16) - Pantala Flavescens Family : Libel...
- ► September (3)
- ► August (2)
  - Dragonfly (14) - Rhyothemis phyllis Family : Libel...
  - Damselfly (18) - Prodasineura humeralis Family : P...
- ► June (3)
- ► March (2)
  - Dragonfly (13) - Ictinogomphus decoratus Family : ...
  - Dragonfly (12) - Acisoma panorpoides (錐腹蜻蜓) Family...
- ► February (18)
- ► January (8)

Useful Links

My Butterflies collection
Dragons & Damsels
Creatures Big & Small
Singapore Odonata - Current Status Record (2008)
Singapore Odonata by Tang Hung Bun
Odonata of Peninsular Malaysia
My photos on flickr

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Anthony Quek: I love to travel and I envy those who could take very beautiful landscape pictures. I finally bought my first DSLR in Jun 2007, one day before my trip to Yunnan, China hoping to capture the beauty of this country. The photos turned out ok but nothing spectacular. I got interested in nature photography 2 months later when I happened to see the stunning photos posted in the Nature Photography Society, a website to promote nature photography.

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