Dragons and Damsels

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This public journal is for my nature photographs, mainly odonata, diptera, lepidoptera, and plants.

All photographs in this LJ since May 2006 have been taken using a Panasonic FZ30 camera, with a Raynox DCR-250 used in most of the macro shots.

Occasionally I'll add a page of links to various subjects that interest me. These can be found by clicking on the 'subject links' below.

Most of the images in this journal are released for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons licence. You can read the full details here:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

also some of the photographs are available as prints at imagekind.

Links:
Birds Butterflies Dragonflies UK Government Magic Online field guide Fly identification Subject links

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Aug. 5th, 2011 @ 11:40 pm Snake fly

Xanthostigma xanthostigma

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Jun. 24th, 2011 @ 07:46 pm Denton monument - Hereford cathedral

This alabaster monument to Alexander Denton and his wife Anne (nee Willison), dates from about 1566. Anne his wife and the child by her side are the only ones that are buried here. She died in childbirth at the age of 18, her husband Alexander (d1576) remarried and is buried in All Saints church Hillesden in Buckinghamshire.

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Jun. 20th, 2011 @ 06:59 pm Mourners

Mourners on side of tomb (c1540) Fawsley church.

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Jun. 13th, 2011 @ 10:39 pm A touch of history

Tags: stained glass

The figures represent Robert Fitzroy, Gilbert de Clare II, Hugh Dispenser, and Robert Fitzhamon. Robert Fitzhamon was the founder of the Abbey, and Hugh Dispenser was the favourite of Edward II. Hugh Dispenser was hung, drawn, quartered, castrated, and beheaded in Hereford market place on the 24th November 1326.

This stained glass was installed in Tewkesbury Abbey between 1340 - 1346 by Hugh Dispenser's wife Eleanor de Clare.

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