Feathers and Flowers

A female Anna's Hummingbird feeding on Mexican Sage. I liked the nearly perpendicular linear elements of the flower stalks and the wing feathers.

[Brad Johnson]

Excellent catch.

[Kerri]

This is beautiful

[John Guerin]

Great stop-action shot.

[Autumn Eden]

This is fantastic!!! Wonderful capture!

[Angie]

Great shot...love the colors

[Bill Dodsworth]

Stunning, cool pic, lot's of color! Nice theme pic too!

[Lone]

Its really a great capture. Lucky you :-)

[Kris]

A great photo!

[John Patrick]

This is an exceptional photo. Capturing a hummingbird in flight with such clarity is very hard to do. Well done!

[photogirl]

This is stunning! a fav!

[Kimmi]

Great shot.

[Kim Ables]

great capture! fav*

[Ira]

Great capture!

[Carole Neesam]

Wow this is just stunning i love it x

[Louise & Ken]

What a brilliantly photographed image! It's a joy to look at in every way...just beautiful!

[Beth]

So unbelievably clear ... like a still life. Near impossible to capture in a humming bird. Beautiful.

[Santosh Namby Chandran]

God! the clarity is astounding...... I love hummingbirds, and this is one of the best photos I have seen of them....

[Pinky Lapus]

Fav! This is just so amazing!

[LeenaH]

Your camera settings were just fine, I looked at them !!!
And the result is so beautifully perfect.
Fav to me, thank you!

[Pankaj Sharma]

Beautiful, i was trying today similar thing with a Sunbird but light wasn't so good so gave up, will try tomorrow, Wonderful capture and goes so well with the theme..

[Shekinah Latupan]

Beautiful! A Fav!

[Madeline Fontenot]

Wow, that is a beautiful photo.

[Patti Raygor]

Just beautiful. Love it, such true colors and to see him fluttering his wings, amazing!!

[Bugik]

Great capture! So beautiful!

[Dawnetta]

gorgeous!!! I love the vibrance of this shot - well done!

[Michael]

Brilliant

[Robin]

As always, a brilliant shot, particularly with such a fast-moving creature. Great capture. Love the contrast of colours with the feathers and the purple and white of the sage flowers.

[Mary More]

I love this, Robert, and know how hard it is to capture those elusive hummingbirds. Great capture!!!

[FaerieMoon]

What a gorgeous capture and composition of this little guy!

[Heidi]

ditto...

[Karen Hofmann]

SO beautiful! What an awesome capture! I didn't even get to see one in my yard this year. How wonderful!

[Jenna Richards]

This is so beautiful! What a wonderful capture! Love the purple and how the wings are frozen. I love hummingbirds!

[Ellen Chasse]

Wow how did I miss this one? What a superb shot, she almost looks like she is dancing..

[bonnie lee wilson]

Oh my -- this is so beautiful. We only have Ruby-throats here in Maryland.
This is Stunning. I wish the bird was in my yard; AND I wish I had taken this pic.

[wahyu]

WOW! this is my fav!

[molizard]

This is really superb! You really captured this guy & the Mexican sage! Can't wait to see you post a Hooded Oriole shot, you've got those in you area, right? I've been trying, but sightings are sparse now. Great picture here!!!

[Emeraldboots]

Just love this picture.

[John Guerin]

You stopped the wings nicely. Great shot.

[Kerri]

Congratulations on making it into the top 20

[Kimmi]

Congrats on making top 20. This photo definitely deserves to be top 20.

[Jennifer Batryn]

wow, amazing capture! everything's so great here.. the focus, composition and of course the subject! love it!

[Justin K.]

omg. perfect timing!