Two days ago I saw, for the first time this summer, a hummingbird visiting the Bee Balm in my garden. They must have been here earlier, but I hadn't seen them. I didn't try to photograph them (I'm not sure that there is more than one) until today. I took this photo with a shutter speed of 1/3200th of a second - and there is still some motion blur in the wings!
My backyard is home to a small community of birds, insects, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks and the occasional fox wandering through it. To photograph the action I point my camera out the open back door next to my kitchen table where I can sit with a cup of coffee and listen to the birds chirping and squabbling at the feeder and the insects buzzing around the flowers while I wait for a picture to present itself. I'm eavesdropping on a cycle of events that has been happening on this planet since long before I arrived and will continue long after I've gone. Timeless.
Monte