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One of my shots I got of the humming birds when I was at Dead Horse Ranch State Park. It always amazes me how fast they flap their wings. To keep up I had to have a very fast shutter which meant a high ISO as well to compensate.
Ok ... so I love hummingbirds! :-)
No use of my hummer image without my permission! Thank you kindly.
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Photo series of humming bird or as we call them here blenchi in my mango tree.
I have never seen a nest so small, the eggs looked like jelly beans, at first the color was white then the color changed to brown. When the birds came out the egg they were black and so tiny the mom would still sit on the nest.
Yesterday the last one left the nest.
It was a joy to follow these birds from the making of the nest to last one leaving the nest.
Hum u Istri poznat je kao najmanji grad na svijetu, zbog čega je jedno od najatraktivnijih istarskih izletničkih odredišta...
I recently had a chance to spend a number of hours photographing Broad-Tailed hummingbirds in northern Colorado. What I have concluded, is that if these birds were any larger and carnivorous.....humans would not exist! These tiny and speedy birds are incredibly territorial and spend much of their day fighting over who should get to visit the feeders. One of my greatest photographic challenges is capturing these mighty little fighters with my camera. So much has to fall into place to be able to get 2 birds in focus in one image. This is why it takes hours of trying and waiting.
I was experimenting with my flash that I never use. I've had it for years and I've decided I should start learning how to use it. I have two, both Pentax. One the 360 and the other the 540. This is the Pentax AF-540FGZ Flash. It works through the camera and is pretty much automatic. The only drawback is that it limits my shutter speed to 1/200. I got a few shorts though. Still the wings are blurry but you can clearly see the outline.
On April 2nd I was very excited to find a Rufous Hummingbird perched on a thin twig. I was testing out my new Sony a1 II using precapture at 30 fps hoping to get a take off shot. When I saw a blur of action as a second hummer approached the one sitting on a twig and buzzed it. It literally happened in the blink of an eye. My capture times show it all happened in .04 second!! 1/4000, f/6.3, ISO 1250 with Sony 200-600 lens.
I ended up feeding four little hummers this summer. I believe two were the parents and two were the babies. The parents left about two weeks before their children. This was the last day I had to sit and photograph them. It was the same day I took the previous photo of the fly. I miss them and wish them well on their long journey south but truthfully, am relieved to not be cleaning feeders every other day! LOL Heading off to the eastern side of the state and a beach today. Not to swim.... Brrrrr too cold for that now, but just to see something a bit different! Have a great rest of the weekend everyone! :)
This image epitomizes my latest problem with my flowers. They're so thick, I can't maneuver into closer or better position for the bird. Probably doesn't matter because there are several of them and they're busy chasing each other in between slurps. They're fast too - I'm convinced somebody's gonna pick me off. Then there's the minimum focus problem, when they decide to hover in my face and look at me. Anyway, bird is far away in this one cropped a lot but I really wanted to show the sea of flowers. You can't see that pink and red salvia, but it's in there too along with poppy orange, Lantana yellow, and the target Mexican Sage.
Haven't had much luck getting a decent Hummer shot this year, so here's one from the archives to celebrate the season... :)
EXPLORE July 109 They don't sit for long, and the whole while they sit, their little heads are turning one way, then the other, ready to chase off any other hummers that enter their territory.
These beautiful little hummers frequent our garden all year.
Captured with a Sigma 150-600mm telephoto on a Nikon Z9 in morning light.
a VORTEX formed from the altar. It began to swirl around, faster and faster picking up speed, a wordless tone hummed deep inside it's belly. Startled by it but not so unaccustomed to this strange phenomenon, she looked inside, knowing a message was about to be delivered, as she had received one only three days before. The last one came with a warning, images of demonic creatures on horseback were in battle. Again she saw these images but this time much clearer. There were many people in a village running for their lives. A castle drawbridge was rising up, men and women could be seen pulling it's chains desperately trying to close it's entrance...She wondered why she could see these images and if this was something that was happening now....she had not realised she had been watching these images for some time now. Her eyes bulged and she transcended into a trance-like state. Reaching over to touch the images and without warning, she was whisked inside.
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picture taken at a wonderful friends land. Thank you Chanty!💕
Female Allen's I think. Good to see her in one of these succulent blooms. They're really sucking me dry mostly. Aside from chasing each other, my hummers are actually sharing the feeders on occasion.