Two years ago fellow blogger and dragonfly enthusiast Mike Powell (https://michaelqpowell.com/) identified a similar sighting of mine as “probably a juvenile female Great Blue Skimmer.”
I’m not much further along identifying dragonflies than I was then, especially females and juveniles.
I do like to photograph them even if I don’t know what they are, and liked the three different background options this one gave me.
Magnolia Plantation & Gardens, Charleston, SC
March 30, 2023
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.
A Great Blue Skimmer perched in front dangling Spanish moss.
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Charleston, SC
July 29, 2022
Great Blue Skimmer, trees and a bit of sky reflecting in pond behind
August 4, 2022
Canon 100mm Macro
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
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
July 2, 2022
July 2, 2022
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
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
