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Ruby (3rd from right) with husband, Ping (2nd from right), and actors Peter Graves (2nd from left) and Walter Pidgeon (far right).
I only had one opportunity to try to photograph ruby-throated hummingbirds this summer, so I headed to the place that offered me my best chance to do so, the Chicago Botanic Garden. There were three hummers humming around and kept themselves busy chasing each other off their little flower patch. All three were either females or juveniles and lacked that ruby-red patch of feathers around their throats. Bright sunshine and dark shadows were the shooting conditions that day, so I turned the camera to manual setting and waited for the birds. This one found a set of flowers that were in full sunshine while the background was in the shade.
Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird photographed at the powerline crossing of Gate 35, Quabbin Reservoir, near S. Athol, MA on 4 August 2012.
I was overjoyed to spot this little fellow in my back yard this past weekend and equilly happy to capture a few photos of him or her.
Canon EOS 600D + Canon EF 100mm F/2.8 USM Macro
A ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide). The red color is caused mainly by the presence of the element chromium. Its name comes from ruber, Latin for red. Other varieties of gem-quality corundum are called sapphires. The ruby is considered one of the four precious stones, together with the sapphire, the emerald, and the diamond.