Digitially Modified Broadbilled Hummingbird Canvas Print

Broad-Billed Hummingbird with digital effects. This bird is uncommon in most of the USA, but common where I took the photo, at Patagonia State Park, Arizona, near Patagonia and Green Valley, about an hour from Tucson. I've applied some digital manipulations, but the photo still retains a fairly good realism, and excellent detail. This species is the most photogenic in the USA, in my opinion, and I particularly like how the bird is perfectly aligned with the focal plane, and most of all I like the unusual pose with the feathers flared out around the neck.

I'm a photographer, though sometimes I experiment in other media. My mother was an artist, and on school holidays, when she had classes at the art museum, I got to spend entire days roaming the galleries of the Cincinnati Art Museum. My twin sister is an artist, and my father took up photography about the time I did, when I was in college. I'm also a former machine tool programmer, database analyst, and mathematics and physics teacher, and those things undoubtedly have impact on my perceptions as well, as do my Christian perspective and philosophy. My favorite photographic subjects are hummingbirds, other birds in flight, and scenic beauty as seen in wilderness places, the national parks, and rural locations. As my physical health and...