{"id":1701,"date":"2011-04-25T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2011-04-25T06:52:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T10:52:41","slug":"monday-musings-backlit-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/monday-musings-backlit-hummingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Musings &#8211; Backlit Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1702\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/monday-musings-backlit-hummingbird\/bhrt_00023\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1702\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BHRT_00023.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BHRT_00023\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BHRT_00023.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BHRT_00023-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Throated Hummingbird Hovering<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was photographing this Ruby Throated Hummingbird at a feeder.  At the time I was under a tree, using it as camouflage.  After spending several minutes at the feeder, the bird landed on a branch right next to me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1703\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/monday-musings-backlit-hummingbird\/bhrt_00058\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1703\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BHRT_00058.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BHRT_00058\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BHRT_00058.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BHRT_00058-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Throated Hummingbird Sticking out Tongue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I knew at the time the image would not be exposed properly because of the back lighting but I took the shot anyway thinking I might create some nice silhouettes.  <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1704\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/monday-musings-backlit-hummingbird\/bhrt_00072\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1704\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BHRT_00072.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BHRT_00072\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BHRT_00072.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/BHRT_00072-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruby Throated Hummingbird Scratching<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well they are not dark enough to be real silhouettes but there is something about the images that I like.<br \/>\nIm curious, what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was photographing this Ruby Throated Hummingbird at a feeder. 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I knew at the time the image would not be exposed properly because of the back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-monday-musings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyuQ8-rr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}