June in Consworld means hummingbirds feeding on the wild current bushes near my home. It also means printing and framing for my display at the annual Rhubarb Festival in mid June at the fire house in Pine Grove. I’ve been working on my display when it is too windy to photograph. The images above were captured a few days ago.
Yesterday I waxed the tent for Saturday’s show and tested the set up in a variable but mostly light wind. I’ll have help setting up on Saturday morning, but ran through the whole set up from canopy with weights attached through display walls and print bins. I always get everything out and test it before the first show of the season.
I didn’t hang anything on the display yesterday during my tent and display wall test. The plan for hanging is still evolving in my head as I frame and count and group images with options I’ve scribbled on scrap paper. More frames should arrive today and when I’ve finished the framing I’ll print all the new labels and information cards.
As I print, frame, sort, and pack, I long to be outside photographing. When I’m outside photographing I forget about all the things I have to do to be prepared for Saturday’s festival for a few minutes and enjoy the light and colors of June.
Gorgeous hummer pics. Very sweet and telling. Best of luck at the show!
Thanks, Liza. I could spend hours with the hummingbirds, if only….
Almost too fine to be believeable! My photography is so horrible! LOL!!
Someone told me that hummers actually eat insects, and sip nectar for energy. They surely are amazing birds! Sometimes as I sit out with my morning coffee, something zips by almost too fast to see. Must be a hummingbird.
Love the image of the spread feathers. The little geko lizards here spread a yellow throat flap in the same threatening way, while doing jerky little pushups. Comical to the human eye.
Too bad I’m so far away that I cannot come to your booth.
Melissa
Melissa, my bird guides say the hummingbirds eat insects, too, and that they can catch them on the fly in the air. Speed and fantastic eyesight, yes?
I think photography is much like any other skill, the more you do it the easier it becomes to get the results you want. You should see my painting…no, better not!
Would love to see your little lizards doing the “look bigger and scarier” thing. People here do it, too, spreading vests or jackets to make a mountain lion or bear think we look bigger than we are.
Wish you could have come for the festival, too. If you are ever in Colorado you must come to visit me!
all great images Con. Nice variations.
Love that 3rd shot. A little plump one, he is!