Snowberry Clearwing

I'm so happy that our pollinator garden attracted this hummingbird moth and it hung out at our Carolina Phlox long enough for me to shoot lots of photos. I jacked up the ISO to 10K and shot at 1/4000 f 6.3 to capture this beauty. I shot this last month on August 11th. Info about this moth: https://roadsendnaturalist.com/tag/snowberry-clearwing/

[Mags]

Beautiful creature and capture! They are so unique - looking part shrimp, part dragonfly, part butterfly.

[Bucktree]

Great capture. Your camera does a nice job with such a high ISO. Well done.

[KV]

@marlboromaam thanks Mags... I've been enamored with this moth since I spotted the first one at a Zinnia garden over by the Etowah River... very happy to have one visit our home garden.

@dkellogg thanks Bucktree... I used Topaz for slight sharpening and a substantial amount of noise reduction... I think it helped. I'm just excited to see the wings... something I didn't see while shooting the photos.

[Linda Godwin]

Fantastic, nice job in getting the shutter speed up for these fast wings.

[Diana]

wonderful capture and detail!

[Susan Wakely]

Interesting looking moth.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Terrific capture.

[John M]

Great shot!! Not easy to capture something so fast moving, nice job pushing the ISO. Fabulous result.

[gloria jones]

Wow...Stellar capture

[Cathy]

Fabulous and a fav!

[Lee]

Very nicely captured.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

fantastic capture

[LManning (Laura)]

Beautiful shot.

[Joan Robillard]

Wonderful

[JudyG]

Beautiful shot

[Kate]

Outstanding…great focus…love how the flower sprouts from the corner

[Carole Sandford]

What a great capture!

[Babs]

Super shot.

[Bill Ososki]

Perfect!

[Shutterbug]

Terrific shot. Love your choices of settings. They worked really well.

[amyK]

Wow, great shot

[Heather]

A super shot! And thank you for explaining your settings. This would be a real challenging capture, for sure! Fav!

[Pam]

Wow!!