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Pretty interesting twist here. The hummingbird was flying along, checking out the bugs - not the flowers. Pretty neat!

I waited in my garden for three days, so my hard work finally paid off :-)

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I waited all summer to catch this hummingbird, and got it just on my birthday! What a great present!

Juvie male Ruby Throated Hummingbird

Anna's Hummingbird @ Dawson Creek Park, Hillsboro OR

This was shot during the peak of hurricane Irene - we had no power, but the hummers kept us amused the whole time! Our feeders are sheltered with an overhang, and the rain didn't seem to slow the birds a bit!

Window view, may be a bit soft, shot through a screen.

Foto captada na pousada Recanto do Guará de propriedade de meu amigo Daniel Carvalho Silva, em Prados (MG)>

I was lucky enough to have this hummingbird hover just long enough to get a shot.

Final set of shots for a while. Finally got some good photos of these guys flying.

 

This is an image I took last week using a new lighting method that is outline below.

 

I learned the lighting from a book by Linda Robbins called The Hummingbird Guide. Her method is to use a minimum 0f 5 to 6 strobes, a supplied background (which my wife painted), and photograph the birds in the shade so that you don't have to overpower the sunlight. When you use multiple strobes on a subject in the shade you can use lower power settings for each flash which results in shorter flash durations which means it freezes the wing blur. I used 6 Yongnuo strobes because I wanted to use identical manual power output for each flash . One strobe was pointed at the background, one was underneath the feeder, and the other 4 strobes surrounded the feeder. The strobes were all at under 1/16th power, in manual mode, and were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N., and you can see the EXIF info on the side. This method is the only way that I've been able to photograph one of these birds with little, or no, wing blur. Down below in the first comment, you can see a picture of the setup that I used.

 

I've taken quite a few pictures of hummers over the years and put them an album creatively called Hummingbirds.

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I had never seen a hummingbird scratch itself before, so it was a rare treat to watch this one doing a grooming ritual. And I was delighted to catch the action in a freeze-frame. Late afternoon light is the best for the location of this particular perch and for the camera angle.

I am returning after a long absence. My husband (Traveler Jim, here on flickr) died on December 26, 2014, after an extended illness with pancreatic cancer. My heart is broken. But I am determined to build a new life and continue with my photography.

Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge in the San Luis Valley

 

Burnaby lake regional park

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Calliope Hummingbird @ Shaw Mountain Road, Boise, Idaho

Rubythroated hummingbird

Hummingbird feeding on flowers located on the deck in our back yard. We don't often get hummingbirds, and I was lucky to have the camera nearby.

A female ruby throated hummingbird gathering nectar from some bee balm.

  

Anna's Hummingbird @ Dawson Creek Park , Hillsboro OR

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), male

 

Shot at 960 fps, played back at 24. Three seconds in the life of a hummingbird.

 

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Anna's Hummingbird

Perched, but with a little bit of wing action

This is a set of two Hummingbird species from Arizona. I wish I could have got more detail on this beautiful guy, but it was my best hand held shot of it. The others are stationary and have more detail.

 

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The Talamanca Hummingbird is found in Panama only in the highlands close to the border with Costa Rica (which is the other area of its limited distribution).

backyard hummingbirds

Anna's Hummingbird @ Dawson Creek Park, Hillsboro OR

Hummingbirds out in the backyard on a sunny afternoon

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