This image has been hanging out with an unfinished post for a year and I’m cleaning house today. The green background and the stick perch appeal to me.
Great Blue Skimmer Dragonfly
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Great Blue Skimmer
A Great Blue Skimmer perched in front dangling Spanish moss.
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
July 29, 2022
Great Blue Skimmer, Silhouette
Great Blue Skimmer, trees and a bit of sky reflecting in pond behind
August 4, 2022
Canon 100mm Macro
Great Blue Skimmer, Showing Some Age
You may have noticed the Great Blue Skimmer in my last post was looking a bit tattered. He still makes a pretty good model.
July 15, 2022
Great Blue Skimmer, Praying Mantis Photobomber
I was looking for the Praying Mantis and got distracted by a Great Blue Skimmer, not realizing that the Mantis was so close by.
He is on the same dried hibiscus stem as my recent post.
The pair from another angle.
July 15, 2022
Great Blue Skimmer, Two More Poses
July 2, 2022
Great Blue Skimmer, Coneflowers
July 2, 2022
Great Blue Skimmer, Modeling
Great Blue Skimmers have returned to my back yard this year. My patio flowers aren’t nearly as plentiful or colorful as what I had for last year’s visitors.
The dragonflies like to perch on dried stalks and plant stakes.
This one let me maneuver around until I had him lined up with a tiny bloom of a purple salvia that provided a bit of accent in the background.
July 2, 2022
Dragonfly Assortment From July
Here we are staring at the door of September and I have dragonfly images left from early July. Time to move them on!
Fence pickets make great perches and are at a great height for photography.
On the other side of that fence a piece of rebar attracted a Roseate Skimmer.
A slope down into a pond was covered with little flowers and and grass seed heads for perches.
Middleton Place, Charleston, SC
July 7, 2021
Great Blue Skimmer on Swamp Lily
Edit:
I had incorrectly identified this male Blue Dasher as a Great Blue Skimmer. Thank you Mike Powell for the ID info!
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
August 19, 2021