Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

salden · Post by **salden** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 9:44 am

I was out in my birdblind taking images of hummingbirds when this swallowtail landed on the Hyacinth Bean Vine in front of the blind. I took the image, but this was taken with my 100-400mm set at 350mm.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 2:43 pm

THAT is one beautiful shot Sue

Sharp from wing tip to wing tip and great DOF. I am thinking that it is a female? Anyway there are tons of them in the mountains here of late and when I return from one of my hikes I have to pull wings out of my cars radiator afterwards

Beautiful!

salden · Post by **salden** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 6:10 pm

Thanks Ken. Yep, when you shoot at a distance and use a zoom lense, DOF is not the problem, and they do not scare off. This BF just landed in a good location for where I was sitting and the focus distance was there, so I grabbed it.

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:52 am

Beautiful in all its` spread out posture.

tpe · Post by **tpe** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:50 am

What a tiger that is, the lens length really makes it for me, flattening it just the right amount. Lovely Picture.

tim