HUMMINGBIRDS OF THE DAY

It took me longer to put a fresh battery in the camera than to take the bird pictures.  When you get to view these little guys and dolls in pictures you can see that their feathers are not perfect.  Today one of the visitors was missing a couple of major flight feathers.  Probably time to grow some new ones.  They also (like people) don't want to look into the sun so they manage to shade their "buttered side" even when in bright sunlight.  I can get better angles at the birds but then there is background clutter.  Hard to get everything at once.  Following my own advice I raised the ISO to 1600, lengthened the focal length and managed to get a decent shutter speed at a small aperture for better depth-of-field at the expense of some additional crop.  This could easily be a career.  When I took typing in high-school we were told to double space at the end of a sentence.  Has everyone noticed that G+ single spaces so justification is not always right if you type with a double space?  I guess it is the "modern way" like deleting commas after three zeroes in numbers ... I guess so it is hard to read.

Today the Adobe Creative Cloud made me log in four times to enable PhotoShop and the ability to select in bridge and then open in PhotoShop.  It was obvious to anyone that this would happen ... except, of course, to
Adobe.  Then, after that, CC crashed (not unusual) and dumped all of the work I had done on 13 images.  It DID open recovered files ... but only after I groveled to Adobe to please let CC run by logging in yet AGAIN.