Moth in the grass

Debboggy

I tried to get some pictures of our humming birds today, but found them uncooperative. Instead, I got this shot of a moth in the grass:

Maestro

What? Hummingbirds uncooperative? Nah, I don't believe you. Hey, but that is a nice moth. I bet if you had used your 100mm macro lens with the tubes you could have had an even more interesting shot.

Debboggy

Thanks Stephen! This was actually with my 100mm macro, but I didn't have the tubes out since I was planning on the bird shots. This guy was too flighty for me to get close enough to use the tubes anyway. I would have loved to get a close up of his eyes with them, but I would have had to be about 5-6 inches away for that.

I couldn't get within 2-3 ft of him before he flew off to a new spot on the grass. This shot was actually cropped in a lot to get rid of all the extra grass around him in the original and so he wouldn't look microscopic.

One of these days I might get lucky though.

Thanks for looking!

dbaker1221

great shot!

you know if you stepped on him first then it wouldn't fly away & you could get as close as you need:D

Debboggy

Yeah, but would anyone really wanna see the 'after' shots???


I'm thinking more along the lines of waiting till the weather is cooler and they all start moving slower.

I'll keep a shoe around for plan B just in case though. :ivar