Broadbill Hummingbird and Octicillo Acrylic Print

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This is a composite photo. Broadbills do feed on this flower, but in this case I photographed the flower in Big Bend, Texas, and the hummingbird in Madera Canyon, Arizona. It's sort of a cosmopolitan photo.

I prefer to use a cardboard background so that I don't get complex backgrounds with underexposed lighting and bad composition. Because the light outdoors changes throughout the day, it's extremely difficult when doing high speed flash photography to get nice natural looking backgrounds. So for high speed flash, it's easier to blend in backgrounds taken just for that purpose. Likewise, with flowers themselves. The Octicillo with background landscape were shot specifically to make a good composite with hummingbirds.

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...