Hummingbirds as Art
Aug 13, 2018 22:50:17 #
I love photographing birds, especially cranes and hummingbirds. I could spend entire days just taking pictures of one or the other, OK I do spend entire days just following the sun, shade and backgrounds. These were taken last weekend in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. I forgot to take my feeder in my camper, so I hollowed out an apple, and put the juice in the cavity. Actually, looks a lot better than those ugly red feeders...or at least I think so. I took over 3,000 pictures, and narrowed down to about 75 that I kept, and these are random of those 75... After a few days, the patterns become predictable and one can anticipate where certain ones will hover, and they will keep going back to the same spot after sipping on the nectar. They are beautiful little buggers. Today, sitting in my office, I swear I heard them buzzing around!
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These are great. We were there a couple years ago. Just a day trip, we didn't camp. I wish we did, I'm sure I would have had better luck with photo's that way.
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Aug 14, 2018 00:45:45 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
Great shots. I used to cut lawns for extra money, in my neighborhood, when I was a freshman in High School. Some landscapes had short trees with flowers.. I can remember the hummingbirds zooming past me and the lawnmower, getting to those flowers. Within arms reach of me sometimes. They would do 3-4 flowers and take off. You could hear the buzzing of their wings. No fear of man. I would watch them with amazement. First close encounters I had with them. Beautiful Creatures they are.
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