Tom Hennessy

Flame Throated Hummingbird

12 x 15", framed to 17 x 21 x 1.5"

Photograph

$185

On a recent photography and birding trip to Costa Rica, I had the opportunity to photograph hummingbirds in flight as they fed. They are very acrobatic and I captured this one as it was making a turn in the air.

Artist's Statement:

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.” - Georgia O’Keefe“

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” - Amy Lowell

These quotations are not from photographers, but from a painter and a poet. My approach to photography is very much influenced by writers, poets and painters, and I especially love the work of Georgia O’Keefe and Edward Weston. I want the beauty of the natural world to be captured in my photos and I want to show the details that we easily overlook in daily life. It is common to see flowers in a garden, and there is much to admire in a well laid out garden. But, to me, the essence is in often in the details of the individual flowers - the slowly opening petals of a rose; the colors and flair of a calla lily blossom; the dewdrops on the petals of a dahlia. These are the images that excite me to make my photographs.