mating

hmm..uhhh..ohh?? this guy seems to be interesting. but simi 1, look, look at those photos, those poems.. all circumnavigate around one central theme, mating! seems hez not researching in oceanography. he must be researching in mating!! This was what simi’s friend told her when she showed this website to him.

So is it? I think so.

Is there any better theme to talk about? The very existence of life thrives on mating. Though human beings assign a lot of terms like love, passion, blah blah (me don’t mean itz all blah blah, me mean etc etc, ok?) to sex we can’t deny the role of hormones, those animal part in us which determines (though not solely 2) this love and passion to a great extent. Ok, letz not stray away. Just thought of sharing some warm pixels emphasizing the theme, mating and here we go:

Bugmates. My aunty asked me “eda, athu thala-kuthane aano?!!” (have you put it upside-down?). Nah, itz as you see it.. defying gravity. This was taken from the Hokkaido University Botanical Gardens, while the sun was shining at Sapporo. Yet to identify these bugs.

bugs_mating_001 * bugmates. gravity dare not play on these playmates. hokkaido university botanical gardens, sapporo, japan * 1024 x 766 * (111KB)

Dragonflies mating. These are male (red) and female (orange) from the same species Orthetrum chrysis (Family: Libellulidae). So what are these guys doing? The acrobatic mating formation 3, sometimes assumed in mid-flight, is commonly known as the wheel formation. The position of the male’s rear end is how the male caught the female at the tandem position. Then the female arches her abdomen around to transfer the sperm in a pouch in the male’s 2nd abdominal segment into a special pouch of her own, completing the wheel formation. By the pond at my home in Kerala.

orthetrum_chrysis_dragonfly_mating_003 * Dragonflies Orthetrum chrysis male ( red coloured one) and female (orange, in wheel position) mating. Family: Libellulidae. near the pond @ home, kerala. * 1024 x 766 * (186KB)

Houseflies mating! Though this one isn’t as colorful as those above, I feel an affinity towards it as may be because it was one of my first shots on mating or may be because it is just small and simple. Foothills of Usu mountains, 4-5 kms drive from Sapporo.

housefly_mating_001 * houseflies mating. Tomomitsu Minato's guesthouse premises, Usu, South Hokkaido * 1024 x 766 * (156KB)

Damselflies mating at a pond at Noboribetsu, on the way to Usu.

damselfly_mating_003 * damselflies mating at a pond. Noboribetsu, South Hokkaido * 1024 x 766 * (119KB)damselfly_mating_001 * damselflies mating at a pond. Noboribetsu, South Hokkaido * 1024 x 766 * (105KB)damselfly_mating_002 * damselflies mating at a pond. Noboribetsu, South Hokkaido * 1024 x 766 * (107KB)

1 names and other details provided in this website are not fictitious and they can be traced back to living characters.
2 social/political/cultural influences apply (see how neutral i can be!!)
3 the author, in no ways will be responsible for any casualties resulting from taking these posts into practice. the characters performing in these photographs are specially trained

11 Responses

  1. birdy says:

    Amazing pictures. Great job, keep it up.

  2. Josua says:

    Seem to be interested in lower animal’s mating only; what about humans!?………….

  3. rocksea says:

    oi!! u’r the 3rd guy on it. ya sapporo beer is made here. so we call this place sapporo

  4. Sapporo – aint that beer? luvvit ;o)

  5. rocksea says:

    hi planet, the camera is Olympus C770. Attached a macro lens MCON-40 as well.

  6. Jo says:

    Nice pics… Which camera do you use?

  7. rocksea says:

    kris, arigato

    pidiyana, hehe. something like that, ya. the camera is not so compact, like the sony ones. yet i try to carry it now n then.

    simi, 😀 hehe,, didn’t expect you here so fast!

  8. Simi says:

    Hey physco roxy,

    well my friend did also tell me that the pics are amazingly beautiful…..but the guy seems to be sick with that particular area & concept of life! he ha he ha…

    just kidding yaar!

    cheers,
    simi.

  9. Pidiyana says:

    Now I know what exactly you are researching on!
    Excellent!

    Jokes apart, loved this one. Imagined RockSea (foxy! LOL!) walking about in the wild with his Jap camera hung around his neck, waiting for the next best shot.

  10. Kris says:

    amazing macro’s there…the dragon fly mating looks more like pulling leg’s…;-)

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