A male azure blue damselfly hovers, clasping a female just behind her head, in preparation for mating. Then the pair take off. The final picture in the sequence was the only one I managed with the air in the air. Most of their bodies were hidden behind the leaf of a read, but it’s just possible to make out that the female hadn’t yet curled round her abdomen to form the so-called heart configuration. Then they moved off deeper into the vegetation.