Broadtail Hummingbird in Flight

Yes, I select hummingbird photos very much based on the hummingbird's pose, and go to great lengths to try to vary it. Obviously, they don't take direction very well, but otherwise, they are such good models, that you just need to work around the issue. You can vary the physical geometry of the hummingbird feeder, you can place obstacles (perhaps flowers) in their flight path, and vary between feeding shots, hovering near the feeder shots (most of mine are these), approaching the feeder shots, perched shots, preening shots, second-shot reaction shots (often very acrobatic), and the most elusive of all, the combat interactive shot. I totally avoid nesting shots because, while cute, anybody can do them, and drawing attention to a hummingbird nest has a significant risk of increasing predator discovery of the nest. All human activity tends to be noticed by any opportunistic critter, since humans are such productive sources of food. Squirrels, for example, are much disliked nest predators for many species of bird. Some hummingbirds adapt to this family of problems by nesting near a hawk nest. There's an article you can google about this occuring in the Chirachahua mountains, in Arizona. http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-12002632/Proximity-to-active-Accipiter-nests.html