Some kind of moth

[purplehaze]

I expect some of you will recognize it and tell me what it is. I believe the flower is a Wild Sweet Pea; again please correct me if I am wrong.

I put the 1.4 teleconverter on the 300 mm yesterday but had no luck with the bird hunt, so I turned to the wildflowers in the yard instead. I wish I had set up a reflector, as I ended up with some high ISO images and the need for some noise reduction. The wind was blowing and I was shooting handheld, so I couldn't afford to let my shutter speeds get too low.



f/10 @ 1/250, 900 ISO

Edit: I am advised that the subject is a skipper, so I have revised the the title accordingly. Until tonight, I thought a skipper was the captain of a boat. Now I know they are also butterfly-like creatures with hooked antennae.

[Jim A]

Well done, Janis, I like very much. One very small thought - I would crop a little bit off the bottom, which would have the added advantage of getting rid of the semi-circle of which surrounds the bottom of the stem on both sides and ends in the middle.

[Wavelength]

Nice image with require details..

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[purplehaze]

Thanks Jim, Nandakumar and John.

Jim, here is a crop with the square aspect preserved:



I will need to sit with it a while, but I think it may work for me.

[Jim A]

Had not really cottoned on to the fact that you are using a square format, Janis. Nevertheless, I really like the result. However, more important is how you like it (and just, maybe, others).

[John 2]

Nice capture and I like your final crop. Can't help with identifying the moth though. There are just too many of them.

[purplehaze]

Thanks, Jim. Your suggestion is still pleasing me, so I think it was the right choice in the end.

Thanks, John. No worries about the ID. My entomologist friend couldn't tell me either.