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I love having a hummingbird feeder on my deck. At least 3 hummers dine at Steve’s Hummingbird Café. I frequently try to photograph them … and fail to get good pictures. However, one hummer obliged me a few days ago by hanging out on my windchime hanger/hummingbird perch* for several minutes and remaining fairly still. (*It’s actually a bicycle rack. And it does have a bike on the bottom arms.)

I took probably a dozen pictures the other day. Most didn’t turn out (the bird’s head was turned away from the camera, the light wasn’t quite right, etc.), but a few looked pretty good. The one where the bird’s head is an incredibly bright ruby-pink? It’s not color-retouched. The position of the bird’s head, the late-afternoon light, and my “trigger” finger all came together in the perfect combination.