Feeding Hummingbird - Click on image to view larger!

1/2000 sec. I thought would never be short enough exposure to capture the wings of a humming bird so well!

PDE

Thanks Pierre! It's pure luck since the wings reached the maximum expansion and there's a short pause there before the back swing motion. Shutter speed can never truely freeze HB wings well, it's low power flash that will freeze the wings because of the flash duration. Take a look at the article from the link below :

http://www.dyesscreek.com/miscellaneous_pages/howto_1.html

I use to shoot with multple flashes to freeze the wings but you can only do that in shaded area and not in bright sunlight which will render the short flash duration useless.

Thanks Monte! Always nice to hear from you. I was mentored on hummingbird shooting on another site by the fellow who posted the picture below :

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10550352&size=lg

I was given all great information when I first started shooting HB but I did not digest all that well until much later :-) - To me, Walter is the King of HB shooting!