Giant dragonfly

Usually these dragonflies (Uropetala chiltoni)are not hard to photograph on vegetation. This one refused to cooperate. First it landed on my hat, then on R's shirt. I let it climb from there onto my finger, and gently placed it next to an astelia plant it had briefly perched on previously. It transferred itself to the leaf, flew off almost immediately, briefly landed on several other plants, and then flew away!