PREPARING FOR TAKE OFF

"Preparing for Take Off" (8-10-16 015v2a) was one of those "I just got lucky" shots I took about a week ago. Lucky I happened to glance that way when I did. And then even luckier that the hummingbird didn't get spooked by me (ever so slowly and carefully) taking out my camera and snapping a couple of pix of it. The original shot is at a bit of a remove. I cropped it down to appear closer, and then fussed with color intensities and texture. I actually saw what may have been the same hummer, among the same birds of paradise today on my walk to the ocean view. But it flew off before I'd barely thought to get out my camera.

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