I would like to consider myself an amateur photographer. I’ve been taking pictures with a SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera since my first Pentax that my parents and I split the cost on in 1984 for a photography class in 8th Grade. Since that time, I’ve loved to take pictures.

I “went digital” in 2004 and never went back to film, which in a way was a shame. In 2007, I purchased a Canon Rebel XTi DSLR (Digital SLR) camera. I still use it to this day. I will probably upgrade it before September (when a certain four day wall to wall concert called ProgPower USA takes place).

Today I dug it out for the first time in a while. Most of the time I’m satisfied with the pictures my cell phone (current weapon of choice is a Samsung Galaxy S7). But today I was in the quest to take pictures of hummingbirds that come to our feeder in the back yard.

I already shared a few of these to my Facebook page, but here’s one I really liked. It’s a little dark IMG_9976(underexposed) but I left it that way because of the effect.