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Canon Image Challenge | all galleries >> CIC239 >> Eligible > 03 Looking for a Flower - and Hoping to Find Food
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30-Dec-2022 jimmsp

03 Looking for a Flower - and Hoping to Find Food

Quail Creek, AZ

Winter in the desert is tough. The hummer is in a bottlebrush bush which generally has flowers most of the year.


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Canon Image Challenge31-Dec-2022 14:53
Paul - yes they are. I put a shot in pending of a group about to bloom. https://pbase.com/image/173273393

Jim
Canon Image Challenge31-Dec-2022 13:14
Are those hexagon nubs on the stem from dead flower blooms? Looks like I could insert a 5/16 or 1/4 inch hex key in one and turn. Paul
Canon Image Challenge31-Dec-2022 02:26
Still, Congratulations...you were ready for the moment...not everyone would have been. Traveller (I'll try to give you some competition...it will be difficult)
Canon Image Challenge31-Dec-2022 02:07
T - thank you. But don't quit yet. This is one of those serendipitous shots that comes along. I was standing out back by the wall shooting some Quail (more on that later) when this hummer flew in. It landed on the bush next to me, waited a few seconds and then flew off. I was able to get my camera pointed at it and get only 2 shots of it. Cropped a bit in LR, and post processed a bit in LR and Topaz Photo AI.
As you know, some shots you can plan out for hours, others just happen.

Jim
Canon Image Challenge31-Dec-2022 00:36
Geeze, Jim, did you have enter this so early!?! Sigh, this is great and one of your very best...game over for me. Traveller