Lunchtime at The Marigold Cafe

I was shooting through 2 panes of glass- dirty glass I must confess- but am quite pleased with this shot of a hummingbird getting some pollen out of one of my Marigolds. It won't appear in the Audubon magazine but I'm happy with it. And yes, the woods behind my house are that green right now.

[Kerri Michaels]

great processing fav

[Barb]

Amazing capture, Ann! Surely wish it were green here! The grass in our backyard literally sounded "crunchy" under my feet this morning! It is so, so dry and daily temperatures for days on end now anywhere from 95 to 100 degrees F!

[Lou Ann]

So wonderful! You’ve had a lot of rain, for everything to be so green.

[amyK]

Love capturing hummingbirds and so special to catch them somewhere other than the feeder! Nice!

[katy]

I really like the artistic feel of it in the strong colors! It’s a beautiful photo and a definite FAV

[Milanie]

Don't you love to see them in a natural setting - nicely done

[Ellen Bogenschutz]

I too, like the dreamy quality of this.

[Jenn]

I like it. It worked out really well.

[Kathy A]

Great shot, fabulous colours

[Taffy]

Quick reaction to catch this.

[Kathy]

Well done. I shot some of a hummingbird in a couple of zinnias. I don't think I had my shutter speed high enough, plus shooting through a screen as well as a window. Really need to get a screen off a window.

[Harry J Benson]

Nice capture

[Marnie]

I like the abstract feel Ann.

[aikiuser (jenn)]

The two layers of glass make for an interesting look!

[Walks @ 7]

You did capture a unique shot.

[Rob Z]

It's so very vibrant Ann - I really like it. :)

[KoalaGardens🐨]

any hard rock there?

[eDorre]

Love the colors!

[Issi Bannerman]

Great caption and a lovely image.

[Diana]

Fabulous image and wonderful colours.

[Frances Claydon]

love the way the light is beaming out of the flower where the Hummingbird is, like it has found gold!

[Nina Ganci]

very pretty

[Louise]

An interesting, surreal effect, lovely colouring

[Carole Sandford]

Great edit!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

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Thank you so much for all your views, comments and favs! I have 3 to 4 birds coming to the feeder this year which is exciting enough but if 2 show up at the same time, there's usually fireworks! When that happens every now and then the "loser" will pop over to the flowers. Since I'm working on my laptop by the sliding doors I have my camera with the zoom ready and this time I got "lucky"!

@koalagardens The closest one is either in Philadelphia or NYC and I think the drive time is about the same either way- 2 to 2 1/2 hours.

@randystreat My general setting is ISO 400 at 5.6 (a throw-back to my film days) but since I have the camera on AV- it may have adjusted the setting- I'm not sure. I did have to do some sharpening in post processing.

@bjywamer I am hoping and praying your area will get rain soon!