All of the prints are archival giclees produced by us and in our studio. The term "giclee" refers to the printing process. This process provides wonderful color accuracy and detail without the dot pattern of an offset lithograph. David scans the original and uses photoshop to correct colors. Color correcting is a skill and can go quickly or take days of trying. We have a large format Epson printer and use Epson's archival inks on acid-free Somerset Velvet paper. The inks are light-fast and under normal household conditions will not fade for 100  years.

The smallest bird in the world is the hummingbird – many of them weighing less than a penny. Hummingbirds can hover with wing beats at 78 per second and are the only birds that can fly backwards – and upside down. Though most species are tropical, in the summer some are found as far north as Alaska and, in winter, the southernmost tip of South America. There are about 338 species and they exist only in the Americas. The ruby-throated hummingbird is the only one common east of the Rocky Mountains. North America’s hummers manage a migration from as far north as Canada through Mexico or non-stop across the Gulf of Mexico to winter in Central America and the West Indies – a journey of as much as 2000 miles.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

There are Indian legends involving hummingbirds. My favorite is a Mexican one claiming the wife of the war god accompanies the spirits of ancient Mexican warriors who died in battle to the “mansion of the sun” where they are miraculously transformed into glittering hummingbirds. How cool is that!