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Flying Southern Hawker

By WildLight  
Here's a shot o a Southern Hawker. After a long time of trying to photograph theses insects in-flight using auto-focus - and failing, I tried it the old way using good old manual-focus... and it made it a lot easier to get sharp shots! Smile

Thanks for looking!

Tags: In-flight Southern hawker Wildlife and nature Sports and action

Voters: barbarahirst, Gwen_A, imander and 42 more

Readers' Choice Awards are given to photos that get over 30 votes

Uploaded:
1 Dec 2008 10:03AM
Camera:
Canon EOS 400D (Rebel XTi)
Lens:
Sigma 180mm f/3.5 EX IF HSM
Location:
51.671120, -1.259823
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Comments


barbarahirst 11 27 12 United Kingdom
1 Dec 2008 10:05AM
Amazing shot
Barbs

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Gwen_A 12 2 United Kingdom
1 Dec 2008 10:09AM
Fabulous shot
imander 12 388 7 United Kingdom
1 Dec 2008 10:10AM
really brilliant capture, so sharp and colourful, well done
ian
BERTRAM 11 United Kingdom
1 Dec 2008 10:18AM
Brilliant shot.
Dave
WOZZERHART 12 United Kingdom
1 Dec 2008 10:33AM
Cracker,well done
Graham
whiteswan01 11 13 England
1 Dec 2008 10:40AM
wow excellent nice colours and detail
Dawn
motorsportpictures 11 289 23 United Kingdom
1 Dec 2008 10:40AM
fantastic close-up, well captured...
scott
harlequinarcher 11 1 1 England
1 Dec 2008 10:56AM
Superb, I have a photo of one of these, but sadly it wasn't in flight and it was as in focus either! Great Shot - Chris
CanonMan Plus
18 586 4 England
1 Dec 2008 11:46AM
Excellent shot.
KarenFB Plus
13 5.3k 175 England
1 Dec 2008 11:52AM
Amazing!! Having tried and failed to capture the same I realise just how difficult (and frustrating) it is! The details you've caught are wonderful.
jdenman 11 19 5 Spain
1 Dec 2008 12:42PM
Brilliant !!!!!!!!!!!
John
Bob_V 12 1 2 United States
1 Dec 2008 2:45PM
What a stunning well detailed capture.
Bob
Last modified by Bob_V on 1 Dec 2008 2:45PM
rossi 16 142 11 England
1 Dec 2008 2:50PM
Superb

Ian
tim g 16 13 United Kingdom
1 Dec 2008 3:49PM
Exceptional capture.

Tim
DOGSBODY 11 1.4k 30 England
1 Dec 2008 4:31PM
A wonderful piece of photography. Andy
tomcat 14 6.4k 15 United Kingdom
1 Dec 2008 4:52PM
this is a fantastic in-flight shot

Obviously puting the 180mm to good use Wink


Adrian
Paintman Plus
13 1.3k 177 United Kingdom
1 Dec 2008 5:49PM
Spot-on shot and one anyone would be proud of imo.

Alan.
nolongeramember 14 38
1 Dec 2008 6:22PM
absolutely brillaint...!!!!

Nikki !
sparrowhawk Plus
11 277 2 United Kingdom
1 Dec 2008 8:43PM
incredible
brownstonechip 11
2 Dec 2008 8:43AM
superb
AlleyCatz 13 274 6 England
2 Dec 2008 10:17AM
Superb capture.


~Alley~
pennyspike 16 2.1k 29 United Kingdom
2 Dec 2008 6:40PM
This looks so much like a helicopterWink I'm very impressed by your skill.
Penny
JohnH37 13 1 United Kingdom
6 Dec 2008 11:35AM
Fantastic capture.
-John

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