Friday, July 3, 2009

Dragonflies at Qurum Natural Park.

Qurum Natural Park is Considered to be the largest park in Muscat,Oman; The park contains an artificial lake (where we have spotted Grey herons, Egrets) a lovely fountain, play ground for children,many date trees.

















As the sun sets...












During our walks to the park we spotted many dragonflies like the Crimson Darter,Indigo dropwing, the Purple-blushed Darter or Violet Dropwing and the Broad Scarlet.












































































21 comments:

  1. Hello Shantana, I love dragonflies and these are so beautiful. What a great job you did photographing them. This is a lovely park and such a joy for me to see it from so far away. That must be a wonderful place to walk in the evenings.

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  2. Wow! Lovely photos! The park looks delightful. Your dragonflies are much more colorful than what we have here. We have mostly browns, blues and greens. Until this summer I never realized there were so many different kinds of dragonflies.

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  3. Beautiful photos of the dragonfly. It is lovely to see so many. As soon as there is water and plants, nature is as its best. A great park for all!

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  4. Great!
    In my photo archive I had photos of absolutely blue dragonflies. As soon I find and post such a photo I will say right away ;-)

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  5. What a beautiful place, and a lovely sun set.
    Amazing colours of the Dragonflies too.
    The red one is stunning.

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  6. You got some beautiful pic of the dragonflies. So pretty!

    I always enjoy my visit with you. The area you live is so fun to explore!

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  7. Dragonflies are such skilled fliers and they perch with such grace - you have captured that so well. Looks like a wonderful place to study them, too.

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  8. Hi Shantana, WOW--those are the prettiest dragonflies I have ever seen. Love the colors!!!!

    That park must be lots of fun to visit.

    Hope you have a great weekend.
    Hugs,
    Betsy

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  9. What variety! Loved them all!! The red one still had part of its meal on its mouth!

    The park looks like a great place to visit. Diya must've been so excited! Beautiful shots!

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  10. Hello Shantana.
    Must say how wonderful your Dragonfies Images are fantastic. Brilliant capture,well done.
    John.

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  11. Mildred, thanks and this is indeed a beautiful park with a lot of wildlife which we have spotted lately.

    Elaine,thanks.Only once we started shooting dragonflies did we realize they were so many and all of different colours.

    Titania, thanks for your kind words.Much appreciated.

    BrainWorker,thanks and would love to see the blue dragonfly:)

    Keith,thanks.Never realized that the male Crimson Darter is so colourfly and bright whereas the female looks so sober and brown.What a contrast!

    Rob,they are indeed very interesting.Had to google a lot to identify them:)

    Betsy,thanks a ton.The park is huge but with the HOT and humid weather here we really have to sweat it out.

    Kanak, the Crimson Darter was eating an insect:)Diya loves this park with all the play grounds.

    John,thanks for your comments.

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  12. Tell me you did some tweaking in PS to get that red dragonfly! No way! [Just kidding] I mean that looks so.... so.... so! I don't have the right adjective! Yes, I've seen other shades in my fellow blogger friends' posts but this red one really got me jerk my head towards the monitor. Wonderful! Lovely!

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  13. What a spectacular place and I love the dragonflies, the mauve/purple one (immediately below the montage) is my favourite, just beautiful. You do see some wonderful sights, thank you for sharing them :)

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  14. Hey first time here...All the clicks are just awesome dear...

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  15. I love the dragonflies. More motivation for me to get busy with my macro lens.
    Thanks!

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  16. Beautiful........ Thanks for sharing..

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  17. Baouganvilla and dragonflies...how pretty!

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  18. Beautiful shots of those dragon flies, The sheer variety that you have managed to capture is incredible...Thomas

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  19. What lovely images, so many different types of dragonflies.

    I love the sunset shot, so beautiful

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  20. Wow Gosh the colours of these dragonflies are stunning! Well done, this is a beautiful representation of what is diversity!

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  21. Amazing photos of amazing drangflies. laurie

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