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Humming Bird Hawk Moths
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:16 pm
by 55bloke
Re: Humming Bird Hawk Moths
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:29 pm
by Denise
Very nice photo's. They are a devil to catch and you did brilliantly.
Two years ago I tried with a 4mp compact camera. This is the best I could do.
![Hummingbird Hawk-moth Oct 12 (Small).JPG](./download/file.php?id=1427)
- Hummingbird Hawk-moth Oct 12 (Small).JPG (27.28 KiB) Viewed 733 times
My friend took this one at about the same time with a Canon DSLR. I was in awe and had to eventually buy one. I haven't seen a hummer since!
![Hummingbird Hawk-moth med.jpg](./download/file.php?id=1428)
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Denise
Re: Humming Bird Hawk Moths
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:57 pm
by KeynvorLogosenn
excellent Humming Bird hawk moths Denise!
Especially the last one, I could really make out all it's features, so it must be amazing
These are one of the moths I would love to encounter, but never have.
Where did you find this one?
Mouse
Re: Humming Bird Hawk Moths
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:02 pm
by Denise
I get them in my garden in good years Emily.
They are really cool.
Denise
Re: Humming Bird Hawk Moths
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:34 pm
by KeynvorLogosenn
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.
Mouse
Re: Humming Bird Hawk Moths
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:09 pm
by Dave McCormick
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.
Re: Humming Bird Hawk Moths
Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:11 am
by 55bloke
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!
Re: Humming Bird Hawk Moths
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:43 pm
by it344x
Marvelous images - what are the image details?
most impressive
regards
Martin
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http://www.mgnastro.org/wildlife )
Re: Humming Bird Hawk Moths
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:29 pm
by 55bloke
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.