A chopper on the beat.

I heard the familiar chop-chop sound and managed to find the cause.

A helicopter appeared far off on a mountain face.

As I told you before, that the helicopter's design was based on a dragonfly, but of course a helicopter's flying abilities are limited compared to a dragonfly's flying actions. Another difference is that a dragonfly makes no noise in its flight as it glides along effortlessly.
The adoption of nature with mankind's designs has always fascinated me. From a feather to a pen, and from a thorn to a needle, and endless other adoptions. We carry nature's minerals in our phones, and we turn sunrays into electricity. Just some quick examples, as there are many others.

We were sitting at a water feature with some mountain peaks in the background and I saw this Emperor dragonfly flying around all over. So, I focussed my camera on the mountain peaks and waited until I got this shot below.

Back to the helicopter and it made a steady progress across the mountains.

Lovely to see it so close to the mountains.

But hey, then it turned, and it came flying our way.

Closer and closer it came, and my camera was very happy.

A last-minute swerve, and I got it side-on.

I managed to get a final shot before it crossed behind a clump of high trees.

So, the next time that you go out into nature, do me a favor and thank mother nature for everything that she teaches us.

I have another scoop developing here now, as we found a swallowtail caterpillar on a leaf of our lemon tree. I am taking photos of its development progress every day, and hopefully after all of its developing stages completed, I hope to get the birth of a butterfly to show you. I think that it's now in the last stage before spinning into a pupa, and I will show it all to you.
We just hope that it does not go into hiding before the spinning stage, as it will not be pleasant to search for it amongst all of the thorns.
Let's hope.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.

Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.

Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.

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