Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas B, Thanks for looking. The first hummingbird I ever saw was just 2 years ago, in fellow Lugger Howard Cummer's place in Pender Island, in Vancouver Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:43 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > That was a very productive outing, Jayanand, with some great shots. I've > never seen one of those, but have seen the hummingbird moth. > > Douglas > > > On 16/12/2018 03:21, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > > 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/ > > > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >