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This post is not about beautiful images. It is about a subject which is normally just about visible in near complete darkness (no colours visible) being seen in sunlight, three hours before darkness. I see bats regularly in the summer but this is the only time I have seen one (my wife saw two) in bright sunlight or even daylight.

Bat flight is very erractic, with many sudden turns and swoops.and with the distance constantly changing. Although I had my 100-400 lens on, framing at 200-250mm was extremely dificult. These images have been cropped by 70%+. AF was useless so II switched to MF.

Olympus EM-1 (aperture priority), Panasonic H-RS100400E 100 - 400 mm Leica DG Vario-Elmar Power Lens, hand-held.

Harold

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Jul 23, 2018 at 03:30 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Bat Hunting in Sunlight UK

Hi Harold,

A bat in the day is very unusual. Nobody said flight photography is easy :-}

Morris

Jul 23, 2018 at 04:44 PM

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A great job even getting them in the frame Harold ~ Ron

Jul 23, 2018 at 05:35 PM

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morris wrote:
Hi Harold,

A bat in the day is very unusual. Nobody said flight photography is easy :-}

Morris

surfnron wrote:
A great job even getting them in the frame Harold ~ Ron

Morris & Ron.

Thanks.

I think this is entirely consistent with the severe sparsity of insects recently. I am having difficulty in finding any to photograph.

Not many opportunities to practice bat photography!

Harold

Jul 24, 2018 at 12:29 AM

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e6filmuser wrote:
Morris & Ron.

Thanks.

I think this is entirely consistent with the severe sparsity of insects recently. I am having difficulty in finding any to photograph.

Not many opportunities to practice bat photography!

Harold

No insects could be very bad for agriculture, I hope that's temporary

Morris

Jul 24, 2018 at 08:22 AM

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morris wrote:
No insects could be very bad for agriculture, I hope that's temporary

Morris

We had very poor pollination on our plums/damsons and pears and not very good on our apples.

Harold

Jul 24, 2018 at 08:58 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Bat Hunting in Sunlight UK

Congratulations on getting it the view finder and tracking.

Very few insects here as well .

Birdie

Jul 24, 2018 at 02:52 PM


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