I've always loved these amazing little creatures, and back in my collecting days, I've chased them all over various fields and gardens, but they were always too quick for me!! Photography has been just as frustrating but, during a holiday in Crete last month, I was finally able to spend a couple of afternoons photographing them, and I'm delighted with the results. Interesting to see the flex of the wings at various points in the stroke. Hope you like?
Awesome
I think I will make a really big effort to find one next year, knowing the way they fly.. I could imagine what they would sound like.
hmm, I really want to see if I am right now.
Great pics! I have not seen them since last year... and when I did, both times I had no camera. Only time I had a camera with a hawk moth was either captive bread, caught in a moth trap or the one narrow-boarderd bee hawk moth I mistook for a large bee which I caught 20 seconds of on video.
Thanks for the comments, glad you like! Took dozens more, but with such a fast moving subject, you can imagine that many of them are of the empty space where a moth was about a thousandth of a second earlier!
I can't speak for those posted by Denise (the one her friend took with his DSLR makes me green with envy!!) but mine were all taken with my Canon Powershot set at ISO 200, some on auto, and some using shutter speed priority set at 1000th second.