Male Macromia illinoiensis

1. ambient dorsal
2. interesting terminal appendages
3. clean close shot
4. questionable use of flash but illuminates the brilliant eyes

5. dragonfly in top left, only black and yellow abdomen visible (I'm not a big selfie taker),no lens hood to avoid scaring and also in shade

I did capture this guy but I was shooting extremely close to him--I took an uncomfortably awkward selfie of me taking his picture to demonstrate how close. I will consider uploading it. He was less than a foot away.

I did not capture him but did take a slow motion video of me about to touch his abdomen, thus causing him to flee. He dismounted by just letting go and falling away backwards (think back dive) and then he must've began flying as he got lower--I didn't get everything on video.

Here is the link: https://youtu.be/kVqaZHXei1k