[Leica] Hot hummers

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Howard,
Beautiful shots, and like you, I like 9620 best.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:50 AM, H&E Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hello Luggers,
> The juncos who have nested in one of our hanging baskets are keeping the
> hummingbirds away from the fuchsias. But today, for whatever reason, an
> anna hummingbird came by and made herself at home and stayed long enough -
> in two sessions - for me to take 435 pictures with the D4 and the 80 - 400
> VR zoom. On editing and cropping I think for hummingbirds the D800E may be
> a better choice than the D4 as then I have a greater area to crop from.
> Here are three of the better pictures:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hummers2014/9348.jpg.html>
>
> and the immediate next frame:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hummers2014/9349.jpg.html>
>
> and then a much later frame:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hummers2014/9620.jpg.html>
>
> What I really like about 9620 is the shadow of the hummingbird's beak on
> the forwarded wing.
>
> Please look large. C&C always welcome.
>
> Howard
> (HOT HOT HOT on Pender Island!!)
>
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