This week challenge : Delicate
Wandering around the Yucatan Peninsula with my mother, we visited the beautiful mayan ruins of Ek Balam (« The Black Jaguar »), near Valladolid, last Saturday. There happen to be X’canché, one of the most gorgeous sinkhole I was given to see after those in Cuzamá (those I showed you recently), and there fluttered around dragonflies of delicate colors and some in delicate positions.
[Fr] En nous promenant dans la péninsule du Yucatan avec ma mère, nous avons visité les très belles ruines mayas d’Ek Balam (« Le Jaguar Noir »), près de Valladolid, samedi dernier. Il s’y trouve également X’canché, l’un des plus beaux « cenotes » qu’il m’ait été donné de voir après ceux de Cuzamá dont je vous parlais récemment. Et là, au milieu de la nature voletaient, en toute légèreté, des libellules aux couleurs delicates et d’autres dans des positions délicates.
[Es] Mientras estamos visitando la península de Yucatán con mi madre, fuimos a descubrir las ruinas mayas del hermoso sitio de Ek Balam (« El Jaguar Negro »), cerca de Valladolid, el sábado pasado. Ahí también está X’canché, uno de los cenotes más hermosos que he visto después de los de Cuzamá, de los cuáles les hablaba recién. Y allá volaban ligeramente libélulas con colores delicados y a veces en posiciones delicadas.
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Have a sweet week!
Les Petits Pas de Juls 
Nice pictures.
Impressive shots.
😀
The blue one is my favorite too. Very delicate, very detailed. Nice job!
Thank you Patricia!
I really like the blue one, you got the eyes nice and sharp just like you always want to do with any form of wildlife. I hate to be the party pooper, but these are damselflies, not dragonflies, sorry 😉
Thanks Jeff for your insight on what they actually are! I didn’t know there were more than dragonflies, I’ll look it up in the dictionnary to see the difference! Happy I caught a « new » species, then! ha! 😉
I’m not an expert, but one of the best tell-tale signs are the wings. Damsels hold their wings back over their bodies just like the ones in your photo, dragonflies hold them like this, http://jeffsinonphotography.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/dragonfly-grass-sandwich-notch-road.jpg.
I looked up in the dictionnary and indeed in english you have 2 different names for 2 different insects, whereas in french they’re both called « libellule. » I also learned the morphological differences, so I thank you even more to have allowed me to learn that fact. Thank you! 😀
You are so very welcome! 🙂
Just wait until you try to identify individual species. The color and pattern can be so close that the only way to know for sure is to look at their « private parts » under a magnifying glass. Damsels are the worst when it comes to similarity, dragons are a little easier. I took a seminar a few years ago so I could learn to identify the ones I photograph. I do my best to get it right, but I don’t want to photograph it, then have to stop and capture it just to properly identify it. I’ll just go with a hopefully good photo 😀
ahahahahah must be fun to learn all that kind of things! Glad I could share some of your knowledge!
Nice shots, Julie. Difficult focus 😉
thanks Stefano! yep, hard to focus when you can’t move too close either and standing on a hanging bridge over a beautiful natural swimming-pool! 😉
Très belles prises macro, merci.
Merci pour le compliment! et pour être passé par là!