Light Bringer
by Gregory Scott
Title
Light Bringer
Artist
Gregory Scott
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
I photographed this rare hummingbirdbird as a day visitor to Ash Canyon Bed and Breakfast. It's a wonderful birding location, and photographer friendly. If you love birds, you should do the SE AZ birding trail, and make each canyon in Sierra Vista AZ one of your stops. Ramsey, Ash, and Miller. Beatty's Orchard in Miller Canyon, too.
Anyway, back to this bird, he's not very shy, and easy to see if he's acclimated at the feeder where you see him. I've had people say that the photograph looks distorted, but it is not. His head/neck appears bigger because his gorget (throat decoration is much longer than most other US hummingbirds.
Anyway, I like the bright alert look on this bird, and its rarity makes me value this image highly among my collection.
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October 6th, 2011
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Comments (5)
Hanne Lore Koehler
Incredible photos, Gregory!! I can't get over the detail in these. If you had one good shot I would call it lucky - but they are all amazing! You are very talented! v/f Thank you for your nice comment on my painting.
Gregory Scott replied:
Well, yes and no. I have spent about a month each spring since 2003 (except one year) in southeast Arizona in the spring during peak migration season. This is where and there are the most species in one place at one time. And I'm equipped specially for hummingbird photography, and spend virtually every waking hour photographing, adjusting, photographing, and readjusting. On the other hand, I have virtually no control over the pose. I've shot many thousands of photos, and only posted the best poses. So the luck is in the pose, but there is a lot of observation of bird behavior and experimentation into technique to get these shots.