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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Photo featured on someone else's site...

Rick at TodaysPhoto.org asked if he could feature one of my recent shots on his site - it's up today... Check it out...

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Some early season hummers...

It was totally overcast today when my son and I went for a walk, so most of the bird shots I got have a uniform white background in them. I was surprised to find manzanita bushes in bloom (just in this one microclimate) and hummingbirds feeding on them - I never got any shots of actual feeding, the nectar in a single manzanita flower must be very limited, and the birds were moving around very quickly from flower bunch to flower bunch... Lucky for me, this one chose a branch very close to the dirt road to base his operations from...

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Preparing for flight (look closely and you can see typical bird preflight preparation going on :D)...


Launching on a different sortie...


Taking a break in the bush...


All shot with the 5DII @ ISO 1600, 100-400L+1.4x Kenko TC (w/ taped pins), hand held, and cropped to varrying degrees and processed in Lr.