I tawt I taw a dwagonfly

On my way to my car after work this afternoon, what I thought must be a dragonfly flitted right past me. I thought wow! and plucked my camera from my bag. The flying thing disappeared from my sight, but I looked around and spotted a long - about three inch - yellow and black striped oddity hanging from a stick in the hollies. I tried to move in and snapped a few without regard to settings of camera or location. Then unfortunately, people in the parking lot started talking to me, and I answered, and then the insect flew away. If that had not happened, I think he would have let me take a nice picture. But one thing I realized...this dragonfly is not the pretty creature I thought it would be.