Flying insects.

[ColinM]

I was looking at options to frame a clump of narcissus when a Hyles lineata appeared in the viewfinder. Substantial crop of an image made with Df, Non-Ai Nikkor SC 50mm f1.4 , 1/1000 f5,6, ISO 100.

I'm always impressed when people capture insects in motion without using flash
Looks like an impressive moth too Bob

[knb]

Not so easy to catch them in flight, that is for sure. Impressing pictures earlier in this old thread too.

[Bob Foster]

Thank you Colin and Kjetil.

I'd call this a random event were it not for being set up to deal with the wind blown flower petals. That the moth flew close to the zone of focus was fortuitous. When I've set out to deliberately photograph flying insects I have had a very high reject rate despite using a lens better suited to the purpose.

Bob

[Andrew]

Just fantastic!!!

All of them....

[Matthew Currie]

I can't find any hummingbird moth pictures right at the moment, but I've had considerable fun trying to grab them just right.  They're a little easier to get in the air than bees, because they hover over the flowers, as butterflies do, while bees tend to land.

As spring approaches, I hope to continue my neverending quest to get a good dragonfly in flight.  The number of rejections here is nearly 100 percent and I have yet to get a really good one.  I got close last year.

[Bob Foster]

That's close indeed, Matthew.