Thank you so much for the compliment on the hummingbird! I think I took a dozen or so shots that day of the same bird. She had finally held still long enough for me to take the shot. The clarity isn’t that great do to the distance, but oh well.

Tammy: Even though it might look like I used a fish-eye lens it was actually just a 17mm lens on a full frame digital 35mm camera (so the field of view was actually that of a 17mm lens). As you already know, the distortion you are seeing is from me using the lens at an angle (when using this lens straight it has nearly no distortion). The funny thing is that in technical terms this is considered a flaw by lens manufacturers and they try to minimize this behavior in most lenses. Ironically though this is why I like the lens. Sorry for the long reply, but I figured you asked about the lens because of the weird look of the photo.

By the way, sweet hummingbird photo. I can never seem to time taking the photo of those fast little buggers.