Broadbill Hummingbird Alternate Wing Pose Wood Print

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This is a male broadbill hummingbird in a nicce sharp photo with good depth of field. It was taken in Madera Canyon south of Tuscon, and near Green Valley, Arizona. You can see his eyelashes wuite clearly, and lots of feather detail, as will as the tip of his tongue, and a drop of nectar on his cheek. He was attracted to a hummingbird feeder where he has already fed, which is just out of frame below the photo. He's in his characteristic "rest" position that he takes between sips, because there is no perch on the feeder, so that my model has to work for his lunch by posing nicely in-between sips.

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...