{"id":1081,"date":"2012-08-05T20:41:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T02:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrider.com\/blog\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2012-08-05T20:41:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T02:41:04","slug":"smiling-jack-photos-of-the-day-8-5-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/2012\/08\/05\/smiling-jack-photos-of-the-day-8-5-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Smiling Jack, Photos of the Day, 8.5.2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

(edit – 8.10.12) Looking at a book about the Rio Grande Valley I \u00a0found the name of this creature – Flame Skimmer dragonfly.<\/p>\n

I took the weekend off from the mountain, worked around the house, did some studying, swam and relaxed.<\/p>\n

This morning I had a visitor and since he seemed to be willing to stay still for a few minutes, I went and grabbed my big camera and lens. \u00a0The first set I took with my telephoto, but after seeing them on the computer I went back outside and there it was, still hanging on to the stalk in my back yard. \u00a0I changed to a macro lens, and the last two photos were taken with it.<\/p>\n

Personally, since the last two images were taken about 3 hours after the first, I think it’s a different dragonfly.<\/p>\n

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Looks like a smile to me.<\/p>\n

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Still smiling<\/p>\n

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Although the face looks different, the pattern in the right wing appears to be the same. \u00a0Maybe he decided to come back for an afternoon sun session.<\/p>\n

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You can check out the full sized image<\/a> if you like.<\/p>\n

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(edit – 8.10.12) Looking at a book about the Rio Grande Valley I \u00a0found the name of this creature – Flame Skimmer dragonfly. I took the weekend off from the mountain, worked around the house, did some studying, swam and relaxed. This morning I had a visitor and since he seemed to be willing to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[78,79,90],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-landscape","tag-dragonfly","tag-dragonfly-closeup","tag-flame-skimmer-dragonfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrider.com\/oldBODblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}