I was lucky enough to get a visit from this beautiful hawkmoth in southern France this summer. It was a speculative photo, given that it was 11.00 pm and quite dark, but I was pleasantly surprised at the result using flash and an exposure of 1/250 sec.
It came back a few days later but a bat swooped through the darkness and the moth was gone, presumably as lunch for the bat.
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