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I have to confess that I was both surprised and quietly chuffed when I uploaded this and saw that I’d caught this little fellow fairly cleanly. He appeared from nowhere into that exact position, obligingly stopped for a fraction of a second as the sunlight hit him, and then was gone.
I had been patiently plotting up that little bit of lavender hoping a bee might come and land somewhere on it and was just about to give up because holding the 20x magnifier in place on the back of the LCD with pressure from my eye for any length of time can become uncomfortable, so I was about to quit when there was a glint in the sunlight. I didn’t even think about it before I knew it I had moved the camera and hit the button - one shot and gone - . I hoped the focus point had found him. I checked and saw that Ihad indeed caught him but I can never tell whether something is in proper focus even with that powerful magnifier - I can tell if it is blurred, but often they look sharp but when I upload to the big screen, they are anything but.
This time it was! :^))
Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird doing it's thing on a Black & Blue Salvia in my backyard. Just wish a male would go on there like some people I know!
Here's todays Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna). Most of our other flowers are finished, but the Butterfly bush is still in bloom and the hummers are taking advantage of it!
This guy has hardly left this perch all summer. He sits here for hours on end, flies a few inches to the feeder and back to his perch. He chases away the other hummers that come to the feeder. I'm entertained for hours on end. It's the simply things in life.
I was pleased with the capture of the bird itself - would have loved the flower in focus but was not quite in focal plane.
Shot at 1/1000 of a second it allows for some blur on wings - at 1/1600th would freeze completely.
(I believe this is a Female Ruby Throated)
To my dearest brother James
28 years, the lines are blurred, my memory faded yet still the pain goes on.
-HummingBird-
People don't sing about days that didn't happen and...
People don't cry for tears that weren't shed
Time doesn't stop when you close your eyes, and our...
Big ol' clock will keep on ticking till it dies
Can you hear the hum of the hummingbird?
Can you smell the breeze carrying leaves that it lured?
Can you cry for your mother and your father too?
Can you breathe until there's no air left in you?
What if there were no wings on a butterfly? And...
What if we walked a thousand days?
How long would it take if we all held hands? And...
How many miles could we go before our heads lay down?
Can you hear the hum of the hummingbird?
Can you smell the breeze carrying leaves that it lured?
Can you cry for your mother and your father too?
Can you breathe until there's no air left in you?
No one's going home tonight without a heartache and a moon light
Keep on moving on until there's nothing else to move on to and we're gone
Can you hear the hum of the hummingbird?
Can you smell the breeze carrying leaves that it lured?
Can you cry for your mother and your father too?
Can you breathe until there's no air left in you?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNSL8OseCBI
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Likely an immature Anna's hummingbird. This is probably the first time I've been happy with a hummingbird shot I've captured in the wild.
One of the locals at my Mexican Sage. They're not super cooperative. Since I made my front yard so hummer-friendly, they go wherever they please, generally "over there" if I'm "here", ad infinitum. I tried a new strategy this week. I decided to trim and clean up a couple of plants near the sage, knowing they would eventually visit a number of times. So I put the camera on a stool near where I was working, and when I saw one or heard the "hum" I could easily grab the camera. Worked pretty good. The plants are so full they really make it a challenge to get the clear path to the bird though.
Hum in Istria Croatia, claims to be the smallest town in the world.
while I suspect that there are many towns of comparable size, there is no doubting its beauty.
Created using my Topaz Impression and Topaz Texture Effects presets.
Thank you for any comments
Was happy to get some photos of this Hummingbird with it's eyes closed.. If only for a split second..
Best viewed in Large mode.
Watching the birds from my porch.
Have a great day of thank you all for your visits comments and faves much appreciated!
The two smaller ones were wondering where the large one came from and suck up all the food!. They don't know it is metal. 😊
Make me Smile .
A large stand of Bougainvillea (the size of a 5-car garage) was peppered with buzzing hummingbirds. They zipped from stem to stem, never landing anywhere in the open.
This juvenile male Ruby-throated Hummingbird was an exception. He perched with his tiny legs and tiny feet on this twig for long enough to take several pictures...very cooperatively :-)) He is just beginning to develop the ruby throat that should be completed by August of the year.
Yesterday was my first attempt at photographing hummingbirds. I have a lot of admiration for photographers that get those great images, like my friend Sue Gary (SusanGary*GloriousNature*) who takes phenomenal shots. These little birds are so, so fast! I don't know what kind of hummer this is. Maybe someone can ID it for me. I live in the western mountains of North Carolina.
When I first starting to photograph this little guy, he'd fly away as soon as he heard my camera "click". But as the minutes passed, he got braver and braver. Finally he flew between the feeder and me... within 18 inches of my face and hovered there. We looked at each other eye to eye. I should have been snapping pictures, but instead I stood there in awe. What a thrilling moment for me!
I can't wait to get back out on my front porch again this morning and get more shots. I might increase the speed on my camera so I won't get as much wing blur... but I kind of like it in this shot with the backlighting. He looks like an angel.
My son Roman found this Humming-bird Moth today, in the memorial garden that we planted for my parents. I've never seen one of these in person before, so I got pretty excited. Photographed in Maryland.
A single image, shot hand held. Canon 80D, Canon MPE macro lens, Canon twin macro flash. Aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/250, ISO 400, flash set to 1/16th power.