This was one of the tiniest dragonflies I have ever seen, and they were all over in the Masai Mara.
The closest species I have found is the Wandering Glider (Pantala flavescens), but that doesn't seem quite right. The dragonflies I saw were darker and more metallic in tone, with gold-ish patches at the base of their wings. But I was still glad to learn about Wandering Gliders, because they are found all over the world and seem to migrate incredible distances, even crossing the Himalayas. Isn't that amazing? You can read about them here.
Update: I think it is a female red-veined dropwing (Trithemis arteriosa). Thanks to @idroolinmysleep for the ID suggestion!
Shot in its natural habitat in Northern Florida. Just beyond 2x life size, this was photographed with a Nikon d300 and a Nikkor 28mm 3.5 ai-s lens reverse mounted. Flash on full, diffused by a large diffuser. Simple 2 shot stack to make sure the compound eye facets are all in focus.
As requested by @veggiesforpresident a cane sticker tour, from top to bottom:
The plant eye sticker is from arleebean, back when they had sticker level on Patreon (she is on Insta and Patreon).
The @ao3 sticker is a membership perk, obviously.
The marvelous TOS Kirk and his chicken sandwich is by @mvpurple-art, who have a ko-fi Star Trek sticker club (*hint*). They also did the shiny purple fiend lower down.
I can't find the info about the screwdriver, the dragonfly nor the rabbit No-face sticker, but I bought them directly from the artists at the ComiCon where I live.
The Words are Hard sticker is from Freewrite. I use their Traveler electronic typewriter.
This arg has me in a chokehold by how pretty it is??? Clown's art made me want to explore a new artstyle and color pallete (this drawing) and I absolutely LOVE it <3