This is one of my favorite hummingbird photos that I have in my collection. It's taken using a technique called multiple-flash that is quite popular but difficult to do well. The hardest thing is to make the flash lighting look natural. Careful placement of my flashes gave a completely natural look to this picture of a Green-crowned Brilliant visiting a Costus flower in the Costa Rican highlands.

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Image size: 2832x4256 pixels (9.4"x14.2" @300dpi)

Shooting date : 2010-06-05

Keywords

Area / Forest / Tropical forest / Altitude tropical forest

Area / Forest / Tropical forest / Altitude tropical forest / Cloud forest

Motion / Locomotion / Fly (to)

Species / Reproduction / Scattering / Gamete dispersion / Pollination

America / Central America / Costa Rica

Species / Diet pattern / Phytophage / Nectarivore

Best of

Species / Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) / CITES Appendix 2

Agility

Species / IUCN Red List of Threatened Species / Low Risk (IUCN) LR / Least Concern (IUCN) LC

June

Organism / Morphology / Morphology (botany) / Inflorescence / Flower (Plant Anatomy)

Animal / Wild animal / Chordate / Vertebrate / Sauropsid / Bird / Apodiforme / Hummingbird / Brillant (Heliodoxa sp) / Green-crowned Brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula)

Latin keywords

Eukaryota / Opisthokonta / Metazoa / Bilateria / Coelomata / Deuterostomia / Chordata / Vertebrata / Gnathostomata / Euteleostomi / Sarcopterygii / Rhipidistia / Tetrapodomorpha / Tetrapoda / Sauropsida / Aves / Apodiformes / Trochilidae / Heliodoxa

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