Hovering Again

Apart from our one walkabout we spent most of yesterday lounging in the garden. Saw a few blue butterflies flitting through but so far none stopped long enough for a photograph. There were several hover flies which spent all day hovering around the same section of the garden so I had another session trying to get flight shots.









Adrian was quite correct when he commented last time that head on shots seem impossible. Several times I tried moving in front of one but they always turned away.

This time I used the Canon 70-200 mm IS zoom lens on manual focus. Though the minimum focus distance is about 4 feet it doesn't change whatever zoom is used.  I fixed the aperture at f11 to get a reasonable depth of focus.  As well as missing the blue butterflies I also missed a really good sighting of a buzzard when the auto focus wouldn't lock on it.