- American Rubyspot
- Amethyst Dancer
- Antillean Saddlebags
- Apache Dancer
- Apache Spiketail
- Arizona Snaketail
- Arroyo Bluet
- Arroyo Darner
- Aztec Dancer
- Band-winged Meadowhawk
- Black Meadowhawk
- Black Saddlebags
- Black Setwing
- Black-and-White Damsel
- Black-fronted Forktail
- Black-winged Dragonlet
- Blue Dasher
- Blue-eyed Darner
- Blue-fronted Dancer
- Blue-ringed Dancer
- Boreal Bluet
- California Dancer
- California Spreadwing
- Canyon Rubyspot
- Cardinal Meadowhawk
- Carmine Skimmer
- Checkered Setwing
- Citrine Forktail
- Claw-tipped Bluet
- Comanche Skimmer
- Common Green Darner
- Common Whitetail
- Desert Firetail
- Desert Forktail
- Desert Shadowdamsel
- Desert Whitetail
- Double-striped Bluet
- Dusky Dancer
- Eastern Amberwing
- Eastern Pondhawk
- Eight-spotted Skimmer
- Emerald Spreadwing
- Familiar Bluet
- Fiery-eyed Dancer
- Filigree Skimmer
- Flame Skimmer
- Four-spotted Pennant
- Four-spotted Skimmer
- Giant Darner
- Gray Sanddragon
- Great Pondhawk
- Great Spreadwing
- Harkness' Dancer
- Hoary Skimmer
- Kiowa Dancer
- Lavender Dancer
- Malachite Darner
- Marl Pennant
- Mayan Setwing
- Mexican Amberwing
- Mexican Forktail
- Narrow-striped Forceptail
- Neon Skimmer
- Neotropical Bluet
- Northern Bluet
- Northern Spreadwing
- Pacific Forktail
- Paddle-tailed Darner
- Painted Damsel
- Paiute Dancer
- Pale Snaketail
- Pale-faced Clubskimmer
- Persephone's Darner
- Pin-tailed Pondhawk
- Plains Forktail
- Plateau Dragonlet
- Plateau Spreadwing
- Powdered Dancer
- Rambur's Forktail
- Red Rock Skimmer
- Red Saddlebags
- Red-tailed Pennant
- Riffle Darner
- Roseate Skimmer
- Russet-tipped Clubtail
- Sabino Dancer
- Serpent Ringtail
- Sierra Madre Dancer
- Slough Amberwing
- Sooty Dancer
- Spine-tipped Dancer
- Spot-tailed Dasher
- Spot-winged Glider
- Spot-winged Meadowhawk
- Spotted Spreadwing
- Springwater Dancer
- Straw-colored Sylph
- Striped Meadowhawk
- Striped Saddlebags
- Swift Setwing
- Taiga Bluet
- Tarascan Dancer
- Tezpi Dancer
- Thornbush Dasher
- Tonto Dancer
- Tule Bluet
- Turquoise-tipped Darner
- Twelve-spotted Skimmer
- Variable Dancer
- Variable Darner
- Variegated Meadowhawk
- Vivid Dancer
- Wandering Glider
- Western Forktail
- Western Pondhawk
- Western Red Damsel
- Western/Eastern Pondhawk Intermediates
- White-belted Ringtail
- White-tailed Sylph
- Widow Skimmer
- Yaqui Dancer
Resources
Selected Odonate Photography Web Sites
- America Dragonfly
- Arizona Odonates
- Biggs, K: Odonates of the SW United States
- Biggs, K: Odonates of CA
- Bruun, R.’s Photography
- Bryant, P.J. and Hemberger, R.: Odonates of Orange County, CA
- Burns, J.: Odonata Photography
- Davis, K. and Strangeland, M. Arizona Odonate Photography
- Dobbs, M.M.: Odonates of Northeast Mexico
- Hibbitts, T. and D.: Dragonflies and Damselflies
- Krotzer, S.: Odonate nymphs
- Lasley, G.: North American Dragonflies and Damselflies (including Mexico)
- Murray, T.: Odonates of CA and NV
- Neotropic Dragonfly
- OdonataCentral
- Odonates for beginners
- Puget Sound (WA): Slater Museum of Natural History
- Reid, M.: Odonata pictures (various regions)
- Roberson, D.: Odonates of Monterey County, CA
- Sterling, J.: Odonate Photos
Selected Odonate Identification/Biology Books
- Abbott, J.C. 2005. Dragonflies and Damselflies of Texas and the South-Central United States. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 344 pp.
- Behrstock, R.A. 2008. Dragonflies and Damselflies of the Southwest. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ, 96 pp.
- Biggs, K. 2004. Common Dragonflies of the Southwest. Azalea Creek Publishing, CA, 160 pp.
- Biggs, K. 2009. Common Dragonflies of California. Azalea Creek Publishing, CA, 128 pp.
- Corbet, P.S. 1999. Dragonflies: behavior and ecology of Odonata. Compstock, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 829 pp.
- Dijkstra K-D. B. 2006. Field Guide to the Dragonflies of Britain and Europe. British Wildlife Publishing, Dorset, UK, 320 pp.
- Dunkle, S.W. 2000. Dragonflies through Binoculars. A Field Guide to Dragonflies of North America. Oxford Univ. Press, New York, NY, 252 pp.
- Manolis, T. 2003. Dragonflies and Damselflies of California. Univ. CA Press, CA, 201 pp.
- Mitchell F.L. and Lasswell J.L. 2005. A Dazzle of Dragonflies. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 224 pp.
- Paulson, D. 2009. Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 535 pp.
- Westfall M.J., Jr and May M.L. 2006. Damselflies of North America. Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, FL, 502 pp.
Equipment and Image Processing
Most pictures on this web site were taken using a Canon PowerShot S5 IS digital camera equipped with a close-up lens (Canon, 500 D) together with a Sony x1.7 Tele Conversion lens, and using natural daylight (no artificial flash).
Images were then processed using Photoshop. Processing may have included cropping, change in orientation, adjustments of the contrast and color balance, and/or sharpening. Processing of a cropped picture was generally applied to the whole picture and only exceptionally to parts of it.