Gallery of Fluid Motion

The humming birds! How cool! I have a neighbor that's fed them for years from a feeder on our property line and attracts a bunch of them into our Hawthorn tree and even to flowers on a table I am sitting at. I've seen as many as a dozen at a time. They are like big insects and make quite a racket buzzing around. Their coloring is diverse and just beautiful! So to me, the video was most appreciated.

I love to watch them, too. We've had some here whenever we grow foxgloves, and I've been trying to get good photos of them without much luck.

Greetings Ed, Forty some years ago my mom set up a camera to take hummingbird photos. We had a feeder on the porch and my mom used a tripod to hold the camera close to it. She then just left it there and the birds got used to it. Then she used the cable remote to trigger the camera while she sat near the feeder. Got some great photos showing the wings in different positions. If you get the birds used to you being around they get quite brave. Last summer I had one fly up to me and stop about 6 inches from my nose. He was so close I couldn't quite focus on him. And friend of mine had one get trapped in his house because it couldn't find the way out. He put his finger out like a perch and the bird perched on it. He then just carried it to the doorway and the bird flew out. Eric

Use a big flash and stop down a bunch. (use film)

Ho-ho! That's funny. They are brave little critters.

You give me some encouragement to try again, Eric. I've been trying with a long telephoto on my Sony NEX-7 digital camera, but it has no provision for a cable release. I could either spring for a radio release or use one of my film cameras with a *long* air-bulb release (I think it's 12 feet) that I used with my view camera.

One way or another, I'd love to get some photos of them.

Yeah, I may have to, unless I rig a feeder outside my window, or I use it as an excuse to get a radio release.

I have used a 12-foot bulb release on my film cameras, to shoot overheads in manufacturing plants, but there's no cable-release coupling on my digital camera.

We got a better than P&S DSLR camera back at tax return time , it has a setting for sports pics . Large aperture and very fast shutter times . I got some great shots of the hummers on/near one of our feeders .

But, do you have any recipes?