If it’s in front of my lens I will shoot it. I was working on an assignment for Newsday’s Natural World series searching for endangered plants and found myself at Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge in Shirley in front of a large pond. The rare plant I was searching for was under water but dragonflies were zooming and landing and so I photographed a few…just because I was there and so were they! The scientific name of the Swift Long-winged Skimmer is Pachydiplax longipennis.