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As above, so below.

June 26, 2009 by  
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Sky reflected in the pond on Tottenham Marshes, with a Broad Bodied Chaser Dragonfly

A male Broad Bodied Chaser dragonfly perches above the sky’s reflection on Tottenham Marsh Pond. You can read more about how I came across this beautiful insect in the previous post, Here Be Dragons.

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20 Responses to “As above, so below.”
  1. magiceye says:
    June 26, 2009 at 11:13 am

    brilliant capture!

  2. gwendolen says:
    June 26, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    Very cool reflections.

  3. Nicole says:
    June 26, 2009 at 6:11 pm

    Way cool catch!
    That reflection of the cloud adds the certain something to this.
    Lovely!

    • Bird says:
      June 26, 2009 at 7:01 pm

      Thanks Nicole! I hadn’t noticed the sky reflection in the picture till I uploaded it to the computer – it was a nice surprise :)

  4. Dawn Fine says:
    June 26, 2009 at 8:05 pm

    Very cool reflected sky photo..and of course lets not forget about darling dragonfly!
    Thanks..very nice!

  5. Wren says:
    June 27, 2009 at 3:17 am

    Lovely reflections, and of course, lovely dragon!

  6. Anna says:
    June 27, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    Bird, magnificent capture. This is some interesting dragon fly. Just the other day I witnessed a bird bumping into one, unfortunately the dragon fly only got wiped out, lol, but recovered. Anna :)

    • Bird says:
      June 29, 2009 at 2:09 pm

      Wow Anna, seeing a midair collision must’ve been something else! glad to hear everyone was ok afterwards… :)

  7. prkl says:
    June 27, 2009 at 10:15 pm

    Very innovative approach to the theme.

  8. Joyce says:
    June 27, 2009 at 10:16 pm

    Dragon flies are so wonderful because they take eat every mosquitos in sight. Your photograph includes reflections, dragon fly and sky. You have an amazing “eye.” Good job!
    Joyce

    • Bird says:
      June 29, 2009 at 2:12 pm

      Thank you Joyce! But I have to admit… I only noticed the reflection after the picture was taken :)

      Dragonflies are fearsome predators and anything that eats biting insects is good in my book!

  9. earthtoholly says:
    June 29, 2009 at 4:14 am

    How nice that the dragonfly was able to take part in SWF…a beautiful sky there in your pond, Bird!

    • Bird says:
      June 29, 2009 at 2:13 pm

      Hi Holly! Yep, I was really happy when I saw that reflection… I knew I was going to have to save it for SWF!

  10. lostlandscape (James) says:
    July 1, 2009 at 3:27 am

    Oh Bird, how I love that photo! Very nice how the color of the water has modified the color of the sky, unless of course it was a particularly brown day…

    • Bird says:
      July 3, 2009 at 11:04 am

      Thank you James! I could tease and say that it was a particularly smoggy day… but you are right, it’s a newly dug pond and the water is still a little muddy :)