Summer Grace #2
by Darren Fisher
Title
Summer Grace #2
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
A beautiful humming bird feeding off of a purple cone flower. I have used effects and textures to give the image an aged painterly look. Hummingbirds are New World birds that constitute the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring in the 7.5�13 cm (3�5 in) range. Indeed, the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 5-cm bee hummingbird, weighing less than a U.S. zinc penny (about 2.5g).
They are known as hummingbirds because of the humming sound created by their beating wings which flap at high frequencies audible to humans. They hover in mid-air at rapid wing flapping rates, typically around 50 times per second,[1] but possibly as high as 200 times per second, allowing them also to fly at speeds exceeding 15 m/s (54 km/h; 34 mph),[2] backwards or upside down.[3][4]
Hummingbirds have the highest metabolism of any homeothermic animal.[5] To conserve energy when food is scarce, they have the ability to go into a hibernation-like state (torpor) where their metabolic rate is slowed to 1/15th of its normal rate.
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September 11th, 2014
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Kimberlee Baxter
Darren, this oh so beautiful! I love this Hummingbird hovering over this purple-pink Coneflower in search of nectar! Love the feeling of action and movement captured! The soft muted background really helps the image in the foreground to stand out, too! This is so lovely and eye-catching! Fave! L/F/FB!