Royal Navy Type 45 Destroyer HMS Dragon

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Royal Navy Type 45 Destroyer HMS Dragon

Image by Defence Images
Type 45 destroyer HMS Dragon is pictured in the English Channel close to her home port of Portsmouth.

Britain’s six Type 45 destroyers are the most advanced warships the nation has ever built. Their mission is to shield the Fleet from air attack using the Sea Viper missile which can knock targets out of the sky up to 70 miles away if necessary. The Type 45s can also be used as general-purpose warships; they have huge flight decks to accommodate helicopters up to the size of a Chinook. There’s enough space on board to host a Royal Marines detachment up to 60-men strong.

As for the ship’s company, they enjoy ‘creature comforts’ only dreamed of by their forebears: no sailor lives in a mess square for more than six people and there are no communal heads (toilets) or showers. All Type 45s will be based in Portsmouth and will serve until around 2040.
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Dragon Fly Edits

Image by Wade Brooks
I have edited two of my Dragon Fly images, hopefully these look better to everyone.

Dragon fly cropped

Image by endlesstrail
A 100% crop of the dragon fly image above.

A handheld shot, since I didn't bring a tripod with me.

sinking dragon

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sinking dragon

Image by timsnell
usually when i choose a picture to post i have a vague idea of what i want to write about it. on this occasion i haven't, my brain is pretty fried tonight and it feels like far too much effort to engage it properly. i quite like this image, and i think the processing, while not very subtle, suits it. beyond that i've nothing to add, so sorry about that. this photoblog will have to settle for just a photo.

here's the original

Ewok at Dragon*con 2009

Image by vladeb
Images from Dragon*con 2009. The Legion of Lethargic Super-Geeks podcast will be doing an overview of Dragon*con 2009 soon www.tlolsg.com

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Dragon Bench outside Hall Green Library

Image by ell brown
A bench outside Hall Green Library that resembles a Dragon.

It might have been made by Hall Green School.

It may also have something to do with the Big Lottery Fund's Awards for All scheme.

I live nearby here, so kept thinking I need to get images of this interesting looking bench.

Dragon Bench outside Hall Green Library

Image by ell brown
A bench outside Hall Green Library that resembles a Dragon.

It might have been made by Hall Green School.

It may also have something to do with the Big Lottery Fund's Awards for All scheme.

I live nearby here, so kept thinking I need to get images of this interesting looking bench.

Cool Dragon Image images

A few nice dragon image images I found:

Lou Ferrigno at the Dragon*con 2009 Parade

Image by vladeb
Images from the Dragon*con 2009 parade. The Legion of Lethargic Super-Geeks podcast will be doing an overview of Dragon*con 2009 soon www.tlolsg.com

Davy Jones at the Dragon*con 2009 Parade

Image by vladeb
Images from the Dragon*con 2009 parade. The Legion of Lethargic Super-Geeks podcast will be doing an overview of Dragon*con 2009 soon www.tlolsg.com

Nice Dragon Image photos

A few nice dragon image images I found:

Back to The Green Dragon

Image by Boogies with Fish
www.messersmith.name/wordpress/2010/01/14/back-to-the-gre...
A few days ago, Wouter, Anita and I dived The Green Dragon,  a B-25 Mitchell bomber shot down near Wongat Island  during WWII. We dived on The Henry Leith  later that day. While walking on the beach during our de-gassing surface time I picked up a couple of handfuls of the little treasures that Mama Nature placed there for my amusement:
Among the lovely baubles I find several opercula (the "door" of a marine snail's shell), a bunch of cowrie shells, including a rare Golden Cowrie (I think), lots of colourful bivalve shells, and some beautiful blue coral. The opercula are commonly called "cat's eyes". I imagine that you can easily pick those out. The bit of bright blue glass at the top is a weathered fragment of a fancy wine glass. Somebody had a party on Wongat Island  a long time ago.

Down on The Green Dragon,  I got a nice shot of the starboard engine. The port engine was lost when the huge machine was ditched after being hit by Japanese gunners: As you can see, the wreck is rapidly being made part of the reef.

Since I began diving The Green Dragon  a couple of decades ago, I've seen it deteriorate severely. The wonderfully tough and corrosion-resistant aluminium framework and skin are finally giving up the ghost. Here you can see all that remains of the four 50 calibre Browning M2 nose guns: It's sad to see the once powerful war machine going back to nature. Or is it?

Here is Anita waving hello to you from the cockpit: Nearly everyone wants to have a photo of this strange activity.

Wouter would rather pretend to fly the plane than wave: To each his own.

Under the Starboard wing we found one of the resident Ribbon Eels (Rhinomuraena quaesita): You can enter RIBBON in the search box to find other images of this fascinating and gorgeous critter.

At the tail of the plane, just above the little 30 calibre "stinger" machinegun, I found a new growth of very unusual coral: I don't have a clue what species it is, but it certainly sports an incredible colouration. I believe it must be a Fire Coral of some sort. It has the right shape, but it is tiny compared to the other species of that family of corals.

I'm having difficulty finding time to write much in my posts. I love doing the photography, but I also enjoy the writing. Since work pressure forces something to be left behind for a while, you'll be spared my incessant jibber-jabber for a few more days.

Like The Terminator, I'll be back!

behind the images, there was more

Image by aurelio.asiain
Part of a set on The Rite of the Blue Dragon. Here is the slideshow. Titles quote A. S. Kline translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies.

Chinese Dragon in Exhibition Parade

Image by Galt Museum & Archives on The Commons
27 June1955
28 x 21.5 cm Black and white photograph
Source: Lethbridge Herald

Photograph of a Chinese dragon during the 1955 Exhibition Parade.

To obtain high quality and larger reproductions of this image please visit the Galt Museum & Archives website: www.galtmuseum.com/archives.htm and include thIs number in your request:

19752303195