A Passion for Nectar

© Freddy Bland

A Passion for Nectar

Uploaded: August 28, 2009 20:05:02

Description

Layers applied in CS4. Cropped and blur added. Taken with a macro lens in mid day.



Exif: F Number: 5.6, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 10/6400 seconds, Flash: did not fire., ISO: 250, White balance: Manual white balance, FocalLength: 170.00 mm, Model: NIKON D90

Comments

Fran J. Jagger August 29, 2009

Beautiful capture Freddy! Love the details and colors.
Fran :) #1173912

Freddy Bland August 29, 2009

Thank you, Fran, for the compliments and feedback! #7898934

Tania Bounader level-classic August 30, 2009

Superb ! #7900520

Freddy Bland August 30, 2009

Thank you so much, Tania! #7901440

Amy M. Wilson September 20, 2009

Huge congratulations on this FABULOUS Finalist, Freddy! #7958483

Carla Metzler September 20, 2009

Congratulations, Freddy! This is such a beautiful capture! #7960285

Freddy Bland September 20, 2009

Thank you so much, Amy and Carla!! #7961356

Kelly S. Cavanaugh September 20, 2009

Wow! Excellent capture, Freddy! Seems I can never get a good shot of a hummingbird! Congratulations!! #7961902

Eugenio Diaz September 20, 2009

FABULOUS image!!!
Love it!
WTG!
Congratulations on your AMAZING finalist. #7962324

Fran J. Jagger September 20, 2009

CONGRATS on your finalist of this most beautiful photo Freddy!! :) #7962494

Leslie McLain level-classic September 20, 2009

Congrats on your stunning finalist, Freddy. #7963087

Freddy Bland September 20, 2009

Thank you Kelly, Eugenio, Fran and Leslie, so very much! I appreciate all of you and your talents! #7963901

Sharon F. Morris September 21, 2009

What a perfect image captured!! Congrats on your finalist Freddy. :) #7966299

Freddy Bland September 21, 2009

Thank you so much, Sharon!!! #7967103

Timothy Guay September 21, 2009

Color and detail is fantastic!
Congrats!!
- Timothy #7967176

Freddy Bland September 21, 2009

Thank you so much, Tim! #7967310

Wendy Moghadam September 21, 2009

Congrats on your stunning finalist! #7969238

Freddy Bland September 22, 2009

Thank you very much, Wendy!! #7970036

Rod Partington September 22, 2009

Awesome capture,Freddy! #7971196

Freddy Bland September 22, 2009

Thank you, Rod, very much! #7971468

Debora Kolcun September 22, 2009

Congratulations Freddy! Lovely in every way. #7972463

Donna La Mattino Pagakis September 22, 2009

Congratulations on your finalist!! Beautiful work Freddy! #7972505

Freddy Bland September 22, 2009

Thank you, Deb and Donna, very much!!! #7972821

Dianna Murphy September 23, 2009

So deserving. Gorgeous finalist. #7975255

Freddy Bland September 23, 2009

Dianna, thank you so much!! #7975584

Jeffrey M. Smith January 18, 2011

A very deserved honor! OUT-BLOODY-STANDING WORK! Could not even tell that it was layered/altered in anyway...looks str8 out of camera!
PERFECT crisp focus,DoF, shutter (for wing blur), Sat/cont/color all dead on with exceptional framing gives Ansel Adams a run for his $$ #9169930

Sarah A. Christian March 05, 2011

This is so spectacular, Freddy! A wonderful capture and presentation!!!! Excellent all the way around! #9274559

Robert Jensen July 27, 2011

Outstanding capture - perfect comp and the background is gorgeous #9557549

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