Perhaps I am going through a blue period for my favorite members of the Odonata family this weekend (one damselfly and two dragonflies) all turned out to be different shades of blue. I photographed the dragonflies in a marshy area where I expected to find them. I didn’t at all expect to see the damselfly in a garden setting but was able to get a shot when my friend Cindy Dyer pointed her out to me. (I’m calling the damselfly a “her” because it seems strange for me to refer to anything with “damsel” in its name as a “him.”)
It’s easy for me to identify the dragonfly in the middle as a Blue Dasher but I have not yet been able to identify the other two insects by name.
For now they will have to remain strangers, nameless but beautiful.
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Mike Powell 
Mike, I think the bottom one might be the male Eastern Pondhawk (the female is a bright green). See my photo of them here: http://bybio.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/a-bevy-of-beauties/
Wow. I checked out the link you provided. Thanks.. That’s quite a collection of dragonflies. It sure looks to me like like my guy is an Eastern Pondhawk, at least for now.
The first shot is my favorite because I love that shade of blue.
I love blue of almost any shade (I think it’s a reaction to having spent 20 years in the army where green was the more dominant color)