ENTRY DESCRIPTION
I occasionally get shots of hummingbirds looking up like this. They are usually looking around to see what other hummingbird is going to dive-bomb them next. In this image, of a female Allen's Hummingbird, the few yellow/orange iridescent spots on her gorget light up in the sun. I converted this image to black and white, turning those spots white, to draw the eye.

AUTHOR
Mike Herdering is a self-taught photographer living in southern California. He purchased his first SLR as a teen in the '70s and processed his images in his bedroom closet. Though he's taken numerous art classes, in high school and college, photography classes were not part of the curriculum at the time he attended school. Now, as a retired software engineer, he is able to pursue his passion as a landscape and hummingbird photographer. Mike has been using digital SLRs since 2004 and has displayed his work at local art shows and galleries near his home town, as well as at the Pasadena Museum of History. His landscapes, primarily from the U.S. southwest, range from the familiar (Yosemite, Monument Valley, Grand Canyon) to the not-so-familiar (Coal Mine Canyon, North and South Coyote Buttes, AZ and The Isle Of Skye, Scotland). His hummingbird photos, of Anna's, Allen's, Black Chinned and Rufous Hummingbirds, in flight, are all taken in his yard. When processing his images, he attempts to display the beauty of the scene in a realistic manner, whether the conditions of the capture were ideal or not.

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