Fuel, Sweet Fuel

a camera, a passport, a ukulele

August 17, 2008 – 12:19 pm | by nerd's eye view

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12 Responses to “Fuel, Sweet Fuel”
By golfnutn8 on Aug 17, 2008 | Reply

That is an amazing photo. Brilliant! What kind of camera are you using?
By nerd's eye view on Aug 17, 2008 | Reply

The quality of this hummer picture is mostly due to the fact that we stalk the little guy obsessively and load the feeder with addictive substances so he/she keeps coming back.

Okay, okay, I’ll answer the question. It’s a Nikon D200 w/Tamron 28-300 lens. The lens is a reward I bought myself out of earnings from this site. I’m really happy to be able to show concrete results of where that ad money goes.

J took the one above, I took the bee one (added later).
By jessiev on Aug 17, 2008 | Reply

i LOVE those photos - that bee one is great! love your camera…
By jamie on Aug 17, 2008 | Reply

Wow Pam, I feel like such a hack when I see pictures like these…

Then again, at least I’m not getting hummingbirds all hopped up on birdy smack.
By pam on Aug 17, 2008 | Reply

Aw, shucks.

Seriously, a photo hack is just someone who hasn’t taken the thousands (really) of photos that we’ve taken. Our hard drive is an image bank in its own right. I believe that if anyone spends as much time with the camera as we do, they’ll get damn fine pics.

Okay, okay, art school helped some. Though husband did not go and he has a swell eye.
By lilalia on Aug 17, 2008 | Reply

Woke up this morning to city sounds. While browsing through posts in my Google Reader, your beautiful photos popped up and transported me back in time to my grandfather’s garden in rural Ontario. An old tree outside the kitchen window was full of different bird feeders. And so, when eating breakfast in the morning, we would watch the birds. Thanks.
By Lori on Aug 18, 2008 | Reply

Fantastic photos. Nice antidote to this morning’s grey skies.
By DesertMama on Aug 18, 2008 | Reply

Beautiful! That bee photo is something. Nice work.

Beth
By nerd's eye view on Aug 18, 2008 | Reply

They’re like little photo lessons in Depth of Field and Shutter Speed, eh?
By Caitlin on Aug 18, 2008 | Reply

Lovely! I’ve never seen a hummingbird in real life, much less taken such a stunning picture of one.
By Julie on Aug 20, 2008 | Reply

Beautiful! I spent some time photographing hummingbirds in Colombia a few weeks ago and was surprised how easy it was to catch them on film–as long as you stalk them!
By MArk H on Aug 21, 2008 | Reply

Super photos.