Photo for 09/23/2007

A “Buckeye Moth” in flight. This is one the harder shots to get. Butterflies and/or moths fly in an erratic pattern at significant speeds so trying to line up one of these beauties in a 480 mm telephoto is nearly impossible. Basically I would zero in on one sitting on a flower and then wait for it to take off…hoping to get it. So it is really a trial and error approach. To freeze frame it I shot at 1/1250 of a second (could have been a tad higher) @ f/9 with an ISO of 800.