Rufous

 

 This little guy, a rufous hummingbird, has been hogging my feeder since I put it up on Wednesday. He chases off all the other one and has his set perches from which he maintains his guard. Unfortunately, he also chased off the male calliope hummer I saw the other morning - a first for me. They are a bit smaller then the rufous with purple streaks on their throat. Anyways, finally got around to taking some shots of him on some of his guard posts, they look good this size, ok at full. I will likely try again in better light. 

Instruments

 

 Spent the day out in Shelley BC listening to my favourite local band, Rosewood's Diary and having awesome potluck put on by the very hospitable CBC radio host from Prince George. Took some good photos of the band, but got these as well and figured they wouldn't get any screen time anywhere else.

The first is of one of the band member's violin, taken inside with no flash - a surprise for my old D200 as it didn't come out too grainy at ISO 500. Didn't like it on the back of the cam but like how it looks here. That old manual fixed 50mm lens is actually a lot of fun. I think I may have had the macro-converter on here as I was quite close, but don't recall. Love the very shallow depth of field, managed to get the F-hole and bridge sharp.

This one is of a locally made guitar, also brought out by a stand-in band member. He made it himself! Very nice sounding as well as looking. The colours on this came out very calm, I like how it was angled in the stand. Awesome band, awesome food, and fabulous weather made my afternoon.