Hummer Profile in Flight

stunning !!!!

Excellent work, Ken.

What to say?????? Beggared if I know.
will “WOW” do?
j

Too good my friend

Sweeeet!! so much detail! Bravo!

Beautiful work Ken..

Fantastic!!!! Great detail

Superb capture!

Awesome wonderful capture

amazing shot

Excellent capture!!

Excellent capture!! Perfect comp, color & details!! CONGRATS!! :)K

Good Stuff!!!!

Gorgeous!!! I love this!! It is so hard to get a great hummingbird shot but to have one stop by just because he wanted to have his picture taken must be a sign of what a great photographer will do for your image!! ;-) This is wonderful !!!

great photograpth of the hummer..

Wow this is a really beautiful shot hummers are my favorite bird I can’t wait till spring to get some more shots of them but I don’t think it will be as good as this one….

Excellent shot, this bird is very beautiful !

Wow great capture. A perfect shot Ken !

Awesome clarity and detail!

That’s a ripper. Nicely done.

What a great shot. I love it. p

fantastic detail Ken!

The clarity is brilliant!

Congrats on being featured with this one great shot

Thank you all for the gracious comments. Regards, Ken

sheesh…awesome detail so well captured!

Talk about great timing, wonderful close up!!

awesome shot….......great capture…!

aikaramba!

oh my~
Just how did you get so lucky to capture a humming bird, especially so close!

Absolutely STUNNING!!!

that’s incredible!!!!

Amazing detail in this capture. They are very hard to catch in perfect focus like this.

WOW- – beautiful image of this little guy..

great capture!!

absolutely amazing!

Now my guess is that these birds are difficult to capture in flight because they are so fast but on this occasion you have done an outstanding job with this picture, it must have been a very fast shutter, what kind of lens do you use. I love it.
Carol

Thanks Carol. I use a micro Nikkor 1:2.8 with a Nikon D80. The macro lens is not compatible electronically with the D80 (it’s 20 years old) so I use manual focus, shutter speed and aperature adjustments. I have a feeder set up with a comfortable chair next to it. When the birds get comfortable with my presence I manually focus whee I think the focal plane will be and start shooting when anything flys through it. One out of ten shots are good and one out of fifty are great; glad there is digital photography and a delete feature lol. The shutter speeds I use are between 1/500 and 1/2000…I think this was 1/1250. Hope this answers your question/curiosity. Regards, Ken

Fabulous capture

Beautiful image, fantastic close up

That’s pretty awesome! :)

beautiful shot !!

amazing, love the detail – so crisp!! :)

beautiful

Nice work. Good detail and color…
If you get a chance, take gander at my Hummer calender

Great capture.

Wow! What a shot!

What a stroke of luck! Well done!

Awesome capture!

Incredible!!!!!!

Gorgeous Detail!

fabulous ;

I N C R E D I B L E! LOVE THIS!

very impressive, i’m so happy as this week, i’ve seen these little guys around our feeder at home, i’ve never had a chance to shoot them and now i can’t wait for this new challenge

Wow your hummingbird shots are just amazing ! I have a journal about bird shots….........if you want to share any advise …..........I would love to hear it :)

Beautiful photo and detail!

Thanks!

Superb !!!!! What a fantastic shot!

Thanks Glenda!

amazing detail!

Talk about a great close-up, perfect and beautiful in every way. Michael