Mrs Allen's Breakfast - Click image to view larger!

Thanks for viewing/comments! .... Probably one of the best image with a 2X TC

III + 500mm F4 I ever gotten in sharpness and details.

Bravo!  Very sharp, well composed, and excellent DOF.  I like it.  Think I need a bigger lens to capture something like this.  A really good image.  

Thanks Bill! Actually, while I was shooting this I had wished that the 2X was off since he was sooo closed and I had to take a step back to fill him in the frame.  Got a buch of shot wth cut-off wings, tail ... ect  :-)

It would be hard to tell which one is your best, your absolute sharpest shot, because you have so many perfect ones. The light, the kind of flower also contribute to how one perceives an image. This one is certainly among your best.

Thank Gregory & Verena! What you said there is true, I think. I would have a hard time to chose some of them myself.  This one is kind of special because instead of feeding on the big flower she decided to feed on the little flower on the ground  so close to me. Got me off guard and bare get this shot by stepping back a bit. This one is very sharp even when view at 100% expanded of the original large image.

Superbly detailed from her head to those cute little feet ;-)...  Mike

Beautiful shot, Tm with great clarity!  The small flower really shows off the long beak.  J

I love this image and would say nothing against it.  But I am surprised that people remark about the image stopping or sharpness.  This is just like a helicopter.  A hovering flying machine can be shown sharply, except for the propulsion system, the rotary blades in the flying machine and the wings in the flying bird.  What kind of shutter speed would be needed to stop the apparent motion of the wings?

Jerry 

Thanks Mr Mancil! .... there you go again with that love of the little feet! ... Good to hear from you Michael. :-)

Thanks Janine! Nice to hear from you, good observation about the little flower shows the beak proportion. :-)

Thanks Jerry! Generally in multiple flash hummingbird shooting a 1/32 power freeze the wing very well and that equal to 1/21000 shutter speed.  Of course, the bird flaps the wings at various speed and depend on if you are lucky enough to catch when the wings max out it's extension and about to change cycle, hence, one may get lucky and freeze it at a slower SS but my guess would be 1/21000+ for getting  the wings frozen at all times.

Here's the link to a bit of a chart that equate flash power to shutter speed : 

http://www.photosbykev.com/wordpress/2008/07/12/canon-580ex-flash-duration/

Thanks Rejith! It's the only shot I got for this .. :-) I got other shots with cut-off wings, tails ...ect  :-)