Kiana's hummingbird

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Kiana's hummingbird
Kiana's hummingbird

I returned to the Boyce Thompson Arboretum, this time with my 70-300mm zoom lens in hand, and accompanied by Flickr member cobalt123, my daughter Vanessa, and a friend of mine who isn't into photography but enjoyed the location all the same. I set up my camera and tripod in the Hummingbird Garden, adjusted my exposure, and stayed there for perhaps 30 minutes, waiting for the hummingbirds to appear. Which they did, and I snapped one image after another each time, hoping a few of them would turn out okay. My 300mm lens is slow, and I was only able to set it at f/6 for this series of images, but I was tickled with the results.

I took about 35 pictures of hummingbirds on the day I captured this one, and some of those will eventually join this one on Flickr. However, I promised my friend Kiana Sotoudeh that I would dedicate one of them to her, and having looked at all of the day's images on my computer, I decided it would be this one, partly because it captures a little more detail on the bird than any of my others. (This was one of the few I got in which the hummingbird was not in motion.) It has been a pleasure to honor my friend this way, and I hope I chose a good image for her. Kiana has brightened my day more times than she realizes, and judging from what I hear from some of her other friends, she has evidently done that for a lot of other folks as well. And she is lovely, too!

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Taken on: December 2, 2006
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Camera: Nikon D50, f/6.0, 1/200 sec, 300mm (=450mm) (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Nikon D50
Aperture: f/6.0
Exposure Time: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length: 300mm (35mm equivalent: 450mm)
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 Windows
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