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Roseate skimmer (Orthemis ferruginea)        Images © Mark A. Chappell

This beautiful pink and blue dragonfly (mostly males are shown here; females -- bottom right -- are less colorful) is a resident of the southern US and Mexico.   Its range barely reaches the deserts of southern California, where I photographed these specimens on some vegetation at the bank of a pond in Palm Desert, California and in Desert Center, CA (a bit to the east).

  • Canon 1D MK. II or 1D4, 500 mm IS lens plus 2X converter or 800 mm IS lens plus 1.4X converter, extension tubes, fill-in flash (2006, 2010, 2012)