There has been a few pix posted here of late so I thought I’d add to them with these ones I’ve taken over the past few weeks.
I just discovered recently that there is a Camera Club in town that meet every Wednesday night in a community centre about ten minutes away from where I live so I’m off now for a look around. Should make a pleasant change from the local Pub 
Slan,
D. 
The dog in the water is so cuuuuuute!
I also like the dragonflies. I think they’re underevaluated in terms of beauty. Some of them are just as pretty and quaint as butterflies, in my opinion. I’d never heard of a “wood pigeon” but I want one now. 
So, Dubh, are you located in the Licolnshire area, or were you on a trip? I love the carving on the porch!
djm
Those were really nice photos. I enjoyed all of them. The moving insect wings were really something. I think if I had to pick a favorite it would be marketsheds. It seems to me that it is really a very, very fine photograph. I think you should frame that one and put it up on your wall.
marketsheds
by duhblinn
Nice pics!
The “Bugfight” series was of what looks to be the same sort of dragonfly (damselfly, properly) that gets called a “darning needle” by some hereabouts. The central pair are, of course, mating while the female deposits her eggs into the water. I imagine the others are suitors pining away.
Very nice!
I’d never seen what I’d think of as a “dragonfly” referred to as a “horsefly”; I’d thought only flies of the Tabanidae type were called “horseflies”, whereas your “horsefly” is clearly a member of the Odonata. (Man, do horseflies hurt when they bite; they remove actual pieces of flesh!) There must be a difference in nomenclature on either side of the pond; imagine that! 
(I’d never come across horse-flies until visiting relatives in Wyoming, when the creatures freely sliced little pieces of us off of ourselves for their dinner. Between the deerflies, horseflies, mosquitoes, no-see-ums, and so on, I’m surprised we weren’t bled dry within a week.)
Whenever one of them bites me, I can’t help but smile. I don’t know why, I guess it’s because they’re so tiny and cute. I know they can carry disease, but when one lands on my skin, before I brush it away, I get my eyes really close and I look at its little face. They’re so fascinating.
Yeah, those things are dreadful. They look like giant houseflies.
Merkin horsefly:
Horseflies tiny, Cran? Where do you get that? They’re among the largest flies on the planet.
Beautiful shots!
Redwolf
Thanks for the nice words y’all
To quickly run through the comments,
I live in North Lincolnshire and all the places are within walking/cycling distance of where I live. Next time I’m in Alkborough I’ll get djm a lot more of the carvings on the porch.
I wasn’t sure if the little blue fellas were fighting or fornicating so I took a chance on fighting..doh!
I have a black and white version of the Market sheds which I’ll post up for Cynth in a few minutes
Herbie,
Thanks for the info about the big flies. Mrs. D. calls them horseflies and to add to the confusion they were taken in a place called Dragonby..it does not take an awful lot to confuse me.
Dragon flies they are for sure.
Slan,
D.
Hmm…perhaps we’re talking about different animals, but the ones I’ve seen are all around 1/2" or smaller. 
Yah!
If you’re talking about horseflies, there’s no way that that’s what’s biting you if you’re smiling and think they’re tiny and cute. Because it hurts a lot and bleeds freely and they’re huge and ugly. Leave a hole when they bite and everything.
Here’s Wikipedia’s bit about their bite:
Bite
A horse-fly’s bite can be very painful. Unlike insects that pierce the skin, horse-flies have mouth parts that work like miniature knives, which they use to slash open the skin with a scissors-like motion. This causes the blood to seep out as the horsefly licks it up. When attacking humans, the flies generally prefer the head and upper body regions, going unnoticed until a bite is inflicted.
And man is that last sentence ever an understatement. They “go unnoticed until a bite is inflicted” in the same way that an assassin might go unnoticed until his sword is sticking out of your chest. . .
But maybe you were talking about the gnat-ier kinds of bugs? Mosquitoes or something?
[Edited to add: ah, it looks like that may be the case, per your last post. Something smaller and cuter is biting you!]
Here ya go Cynth
Slan,
D.
The “horseflies” that Cran’s talking about are more likely deerflies, which some people call horseflies but they’re smaller (about 1/2 inch). They still hurt plenty when they bite, but they’re typically slow enough that you can brush em off before they get a chance.
Those mating insects are indeed damselflies, not dragonflies. The easiest way to tell the difference is that damselflies put their wings together over their backs (like butterflies) when they rest; dragonflies hold them straight out.
Whether butter, dragon, horse, or deer–perhaps we would do better to call them all “flies” and be done with it? 
I was thinking maybe deerflies, too. Less nasty, but not so’s you’d notice. Found myself more likely to attract horseflies and deerflies when I was swimming, too: stick out a wet limb, and ZOOM, they’re on you quick as a flash.
Yeah, but to an entomologist only the horseflies and deerflies are really flies; the dragon- and damselflies are in a different order altogether!
It’s like “bugs,” a term that a lot of people use to refer to insects in general. True bugs are critters like stink bugs, giant water bugs, etc., which have sucking mouthparts.
I suppose it seems silly to draw these distinctions, but you’d probably want to correct someone if they referred to whistles, recorders, and transverse flutes all as “flutes” without realizing that there are differences!
Only to the obscurantist, Brad. Or to people ugrateful for knowledge.
Ooooo…this one is gorgeous!!
Not that the other ones weren’t (I actually loved quite a few of them), but this one has a sort of wanting quality to it…like you would want to see what’s at the end of that tunnel of trees. May I use it as my desktop, dub? Right now I have a picture of the river Moy, and I could use a change…