Hudson Valley Hummingbirds
di William J. Kemble
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Hummingbirds are a wonderful form of entertainment, are delightful to encounter, and are a significant contributor to the beauty all around us by being great pollinators. These tiny birds do amazing things that larger than life by flying faster and having an over-sized sense of aggression.
Hudson Valley Hummingbirds makes the most of several gardens where there is a wide variety of flowers that attract nature's most delightful winged creature. While New York doesn't have the vast numbers of hummingbirds that are found in other states the ability for beautiful photographs is possible because of the colors, shapes, and sizes that provide a food source.
The photographs include gardens at Val Kill Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site and Olana State Historic Site, which are great places to visit with the entire family. Other locations include a church and a community garden, where people have made a great effort to growth the best plants they can. A fifth location is the Saugerties Lighthouse, where there is distinctly a hands off approach to the flowers that grow in the wild and the result is a three-week period where hummingbirds make this location a significant migration stopover where people can watch chases, be close to perched birds, and make a study of behavior under natural conditions.
While this is not an instructional book, there are some tips for use of cameras and suggestions on how take good photographs of a very difficult creature to work with. In some ways it is the story of a series of adventures that show how much fun can be made in simply and attempt to get nice photographs, and why not every picture has to be a high end example of great light, positioning, and camera work. This is about how to have fun in the effort and do the best under whatever circumstances are provided on any given day.
Hudson Valley Hummingbirds makes the most of several gardens where there is a wide variety of flowers that attract nature's most delightful winged creature. While New York doesn't have the vast numbers of hummingbirds that are found in other states the ability for beautiful photographs is possible because of the colors, shapes, and sizes that provide a food source.
The photographs include gardens at Val Kill Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site and Olana State Historic Site, which are great places to visit with the entire family. Other locations include a church and a community garden, where people have made a great effort to growth the best plants they can. A fifth location is the Saugerties Lighthouse, where there is distinctly a hands off approach to the flowers that grow in the wild and the result is a three-week period where hummingbirds make this location a significant migration stopover where people can watch chases, be close to perched birds, and make a study of behavior under natural conditions.
While this is not an instructional book, there are some tips for use of cameras and suggestions on how take good photographs of a very difficult creature to work with. In some ways it is the story of a series of adventures that show how much fun can be made in simply and attempt to get nice photographs, and why not every picture has to be a high end example of great light, positioning, and camera work. This is about how to have fun in the effort and do the best under whatever circumstances are provided on any given day.
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Funzionalità e dettagli
- Categoria principale: Libri d'arte e fotografia
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Formato del progetto: 15×23 cm
N° di pagine: 96 -
Isbn
- Copertina morbida: 9781366388735
- Copertina rigida rivestita: 9781366388728
- Copertina rigida con sovraccoperta: 9781366388711
- Data di pubblicazione: feb 05, 2017
- Lingua English
- Parole chiave hummingbirds, Hudson Valley, Eleanor Roosevelt, New York, flowers, Olana
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Informazioni sull'autore
William J. Kemble
Saugerties, NY
William J. Kemble is longtime correspondent and photographer with the Daily Freeman in Kingston, NY. A 1991 graduate of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, he enjoys asking the question what would happen if people didn't interfere with the natural course of events. The sound of silence is not possible except in a vacuum, technology intrudes on nature, and the best places to find peace are those locations where there is no cell service.