Today I returned to the conservation area where I photographed the Blue Dasher a few days ago. A new population of these dragonflies was found locally last weekend and until then this species had only been recorded once before locally, last year, at another location much further south. When I photographed the Blue Dashers a few days ago it was my first time seeing this species. I took many photos, but none showed the orange coloring on the side of the thorax very well because I could never get the right angle of light to bring out the color. The Blue Dashers were all concentrated along the north edge of a bay and always perched on emergent vegetation along the shoreline where they were all lit from the back or side. I never saw any perch away from the water where I could photograph them in a front lighting situation, which I hoped I would encounter so I could capture the color on the side of the thorax. Today, as I was walking back to the parking lot along a trail separated from the pond, at the very last moment, after failing again and again to get a good angle on these guys, I encountered this one individual perched in the tall grass away from the pond and was able to get the right angle of light to bring out the color in the thorax, the shot I envisioned ever since I saw my first individual a few days ago.