Antigua Hummingbirds

Here is a collection of the Hummingbird images that I liked from our trip to Antigua. 1, 2, 5-8 Antillean Crested Hummingbird. 3, 4, 9, 10 Green Throated Carib. Unlike other resorts, there were no feeders in Cocobay, which made photography more challenging especially with the strong winds moving the flowers most of the time.

Focus-Stacked Images from Antigua

At last, I have found time to process some of the Focus stacks that I took on our trip in February. These ranged from 6 to 25 handheld individual images.

 

Final Views from Antigua

Here are a final few views at night from Antigua. The first two are very long exposures (30 seconds iso800 f 2.8) on the resort beach taken in complete darkness other than the illumination from a patrolling police car with red and blue flashing lights. The remainder are taken around 15 seconds iso800 f5.6 around the resort.

 

Antigua - Herons and Egrets

A resume of the Heron and Egret species that we photographed during our 10 days in Antigua. Species shown were Green Heron, Black-Crowned Night Heron, Great White Egret, Cattle Egret, Snowy Egret, Tricoloured Heron, Great Blue Heron

 

 

Antigua - Hummingbirds

Although back for just over a week now, I haven't got to the end of sorting the last 2 days of the trip but decided, rather than doing a retrospective diary, I would concentrate on species/groups. So, here, an overview of my remaining Hummingbird attempts - not fully edited nor all the images(!) but a selection to show their charm and difficulty in photographing with good postures and clear backgrounds. The first 6 the Antillean Crested Hummingbird and the last 4, the Green Throated Carib.

 

 

Antigue 10. Around Cocobay

We have been back in the UK a few days now and I am wanting to complete sorting images before memories of places and wildlife names fade too much. Here a miscellany with 1.2 Gulf Fritillary and caterpillar with Passion flower food plant. 3-6 Poor photo of cutting lawn Antiguan style with Cattle Egrets in attendance and surrounding scenry etc 7-9 Macro shots various insects 10. Focus-stacked Grasshopper using tripod.