Thanks, all!
Bartholomew, except for the first hummingbird photo, those were all taken with flash. So I was able to use a fast shutter speed and freeze the wings. I don't love the quality of flash light, but my feeder hangs in the shade, so it's really difficult to get focused pics of the birds without using a flash. I even got up really early one morning to take pics when the sun was hitting it, but those are all very yellow and I don't like them any better.
Heather, I use a panasonic lumix fz-30. It does have a continuous shutter button, but that doesn't work with a flash. The butterfly was taking during continuous shutter but none of the rest were. All the pics except a couple of the dragonfly ones were taken with autofocus though. I find my autofocus often doesn't work very well with dragonflies.
Wade, I haven't been to Madera canyon, but the time I went out to Mt. Graham in the Pinalenos, there were so many hummingbirds that they were landing on the road. There were so many at the feeders at the ranger station that they would land on my finger if I left it in front of the feeder port. We usually have Anna's all winter, but I haven't seen many of those lately. Maybe they've gone north. Or maybe the black-chinned male is keeping them all out of my yard! I love how when you travel around the state you get new species of hummers that you don't see where you live.
Nanci, my FIL said the same thing about that monarch pic. I hope I didn't shoot myself in the foot by not submitting it as my critter photo entry! LOL!
Katie, I want to set up some lights out there and see if I can actually get the iridescence on them better. The flash doesn't seem to be doing it at all, which surprised me. I was wondering if setting up a spotlight would work. What do you think?
Angela, that's weird. We have so many hummers here I can't imagine not having one come visit!
