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Anna'a Hummingbird

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Anna's Hummingbird (male)
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Anna's Hummingbird (male)

This guy lives in the bayside park half-a-mile from my San Mateo apartment. I see him perched on the same twig every time I visit the location, but I was slow to photograph him because the park is generally useless for photography, my time used for birding instead. When I finally found the activation energy to bike my rig over to the park, I stood on a rock pile abutting his favored shrub and shot across the bay to generate this gently-graded background. It was hella windy, so he's leaning into the western gales to minimize drag and associated wobble. I was very close to him, so closing down to f/10 increased my depth-of-focus and kept every feather in focus. He's a bit tight in the frame, but I couldn't move the rock pile farther back; the 1,4x TC would have worked if I wanted to do a bit more cropping.

Canon 400mm f/4 IS DO II + 2x TC III on EOS 1DX Mark II
1/1250 at f/10, ISO 1600

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