Green Crowned Brilliant

Gallery: AvianPosted July 9, 2012384 views14 comments

Here's a shot from this spring in Costa Rica.

The Heliconia flower is one that hummers are naturally attracted to. The beautiful contrast of the red flower and brilliant green of the hummer works for me on this.

3 flashes on the hummer, 1 on the background.

Canon 50D
70-200 f/4 L IS @ 127mm

Larger version included.

Thanks for your thoughts and comments.

Comments

14 comments

Comment posted by Randy Bacon on July 9, 2012 at 10:59 PM

Stunning! The contrast of color and texture works for me as well. This is an image that begs to be explored - well done.

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Comment posted by John Tobias on July 9, 2012 at 11:32 PM

Another fine hummingbird photo

I like that you caught the hummer between 2 leaves of the plant. Easy to see why this is called a brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on July 10, 2012 at 5:22 AM

A "Brilliant" capture of this little gem

Excellent flash work exhibited here, and a very attractive heliconia too.

Sweet One Kieth!!!

Ken Archer

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Comment posted by Patrick O'Healy on July 10, 2012 at 10:38 AM

Love your hummingbird suite. Looking forward to our next coaching session tonight.

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Comment posted by Mike Ramy on July 10, 2012 at 10:57 AM

Keith,
One word - Amazing . . .
This photo could have been posted in Flora just as well. What shutter speed was used to catch the wing motion so perfectly?

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Comment posted by Luke Ormand on July 10, 2012 at 11:38 AM

Fantastic job controlling the flash - this does not have the tell-tales that so many of these high speed hummer images do. The flower is just as powerful of a subject as the bird

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on July 10, 2012 at 11:47 AM

Sweet image Keith, I cannot add to what the others have said.
Excellent work.

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Comment posted by jack jaeger jr on July 10, 2012 at 4:15 PM

Top Shelf Hummer photo !

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Comment posted by Dan Roberts on July 10, 2012 at 4:19 PM

Incredible detail and I agree with your comment regarding the complimentary colors between bird and flower. Also a nice clean BG. Well done.

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Comment posted by Alan Murphy on July 10, 2012 at 6:07 PM

Beautiful Keith.

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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on July 10, 2012 at 6:58 PM

Outstanding all around!

Ray

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Comment posted by S Govindarajan on July 10, 2012 at 11:43 PM

Great elements in this image, particularly the colors and textures. The contrast in sizes between each element is the tops.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on July 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM

Beautiful composition, Keith. I love the textures in the Heliconia. I'm afraid I'm not a big fan of flash frozen hummingbirds.

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Comment posted by David Williams on July 11, 2012 at 3:46 PM

The Heliconia should be dominating this photo, Keith, but the yellow and the green hummer pull your eye away from it immediately....very nicely done!

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