Mosquito Hawk

Now let's get started with the blog post for today! The photos for today are of a mosquito hawk I saw on my window. These photos were taken one day before my Lake Tahoe/Reno trip last year (photos here). I am still trying to catch up a bit on my photos since my Death Valley National Park photos (photos here) took quite a while to post. Anyways, lucky for me, the mosquito hawk was on the other side of the window and was staying there without moving much. Really lucky because I had time to set up my camera for macro to take some photos. All of the photos for today were taken with my Canon EOS 7D with a Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens and Kenko Extension Tubes. Artificial lighting was provided by my handy Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT with a cheap soft box. If you want to view the photos bigger, just click on them.

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Focusing in on the details of the head. 

 Focusing in on the details of the wing.

A few more head shots. Notice the details on the eyes? Cool right?

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