Hummer Season!

[Aidan Briggs]

The hummers are in full force now with Rufous, Allen's and Anna's all along Central California. The Anna's are here year round, and are by far the most common. I have yet to get any good images of the Allen's or Rufous hummers, but I just saw a bright male Rufous at my feeders this morning.

I believe this is a juvi male Anna's Hummingbird, but there is a possibility that it is an adult female. It is feeding from a native Red-Flowering Currant (Ribes Sanguineum) that I provided :)

50D, 100-400 at 320mm
1/1000 sec, f/8, ISO 400
No Flash

[Morkel Erasmus]

lovely shot Aidan! I like the flowing shape of the flower and the hummer is nice and sharp with enough wing movement to give me a sense of those buzzing wings.

[Lorant Voros]

Very nice composition, colors, BG. I agree with Morkel; nice wing blur and sharp head. Well done.

[Roberto Betta]

Angle is really great and I like how the colour of the birds chin compliments the colour of the flower.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Beautiful setting this Aidan, nice POV, light and sharpness...

[Andrew Merwin]

Very nice image. I like how the flower stem leads the eye to the feeding hummer. Well done. It is still to cold in south central MT for hummers. The only neotropical migrants that are back are mourning doves, male robins & western meadowlarks. More coming soon.
Andrew

[Daniel Cadieux]

I love that this hummer is facing us...different than all the profiles we usually see. Awesome comp, but I feel the balance would be perfect if you crop about 40% off the space below the bird (you'd have a near perfect "mirrored" placement between the three leaves in ULC and your subject in LRC). Very well done Aidan!!

[denise ippolito]

Aidan, Beautiful pose and flower! I like the composition and agree w/ Daniel regarding a little off the bottom. BG colors are very nice. Well done indeed.:)

[Aidan Briggs]

Thanks everyone for the comments. Daniel, I agree with you 100% on the crop. Didn't even notice that until you mentioned it.

[Harshad Barve]

excellent image , lovely settings
TFS

[Steve Canuel]

Good suggestion by Daniel. I like the comp, the hummer appears to be dangling from the tip of the flower.

[Markus Jais]

beautiful shot. The motion blur in the wings is perfect.

Markus

[Greg Basco]

Aidan, really nice use of the available light and love the composition.

Congrats on a fine image.

Cheers,
Greg Basco

[Aidan Briggs]

Thanks for the input everyone.

Greg, I checked out your blog. You have some pretty amazing hummingbird stuff on there!

[Danny Laredo]

Sweet setup and image.

[Greg Basco]

Thanks, Aidan. It's pretty much all multi-flash down here for hummers because of the low light but I sure do enjoy natural light when the opportunity presents itself.

Cheers,
Greg