Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howard, Thanks for the thumbs up! Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 7:32 AM Howard Cummer via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Jayanand, > > These are magnificent both in content and execution. > > Howard (who knows a bit about catching hummers on the fly) > > > Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 08:51:25 +0530 > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com <mailto:jayanand at > gmail.com>> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org <mailto:lug at > leica-users.org>>, > PSM > <psm-1857 at googlegroups.com <mailto:psm-1857 at > googlegroups.com>> > Subject: [Leica] Hummingbirds > > > We spent a few days in Quito, a most charming town, on the way to the > Galapagos. On one of the days we hired a car and driver and set off for the > Mindo Cloud Forest in search of birds, especially hummingbirds. Ecuador is > Hummingbird Central, as 134 of the 320 odd varieties are found in the > Andean Cloud Forest there. We went to a couple of places, outfitted with > plants, water, flowers and feeders to attract the birds, as is the norm in > Central and South America. Even with all this, it was quite difficult to > photograph the hummingbirds off the feeders, in a natural state, as they > zip around at what seems to be the speed of sound. Anyway, like the parable > of the monkeys at the typewriters, if one keep clicking away, some are > bound to be fine. These were all taken in natural light, hand held, without > the help of a high speed sync flash setup, which is normal for > photographing hummingbirds. > > Here is a page of hummingbirds. They are identified to the best of my > ability, if they need to be corrected, please let me know, and I will do > so! > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/hummers/ < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/hummers/> > > Please see LARGE > > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >