Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/14

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Hummingbird
From: lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Tue Aug 14 19:14:15 2007
References: <200708150115.l7F1FHL8065544@server1.waverley.reid.org>

Doug,

I am in awe of your hummingbird picture. I marvel at both your sense  
of composition and the quickness of your trigger finger. How on earth  
did you manage to catch the bird's wings in a perfect position? What  
shutter speed did you use? Whenever I look at the wings of hovering  
hummingbirds in my back yard, all I see is a blur of motion.  Please  
tell me that the picture was one of many attempts - or you will raise  
my feeling of photographic inadequacy to a much higher level than it  
is now.

Larry Z


On Aug 14, 2007, at 9:15 PM, Doug Herr wrote:

>>
>>> just back from Lassen Volcanic National Park where hatch-year
>>> Rufous Hummingbirds migrating south are collecting in the few
>>> mountain valleys where flowers still bloom.  The meadow this bird
>>> was in had at least 100 hummingbirds, each claiming and defending
>>> feeding territory that overlaps with its neighbors' claims.
>>>
>>> http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/trochilidae/ruhu01.html
>>>
>>> R8/DMR, 280 f/4 APO, 1.4x APO-Extender-R
>>>