Another Boring Monday Morning Commute
by Gregory Scott
Title
Another Boring Monday Morning Commute
Artist
Gregory Scott
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
You get up each day, and head off to grab some nectar and maybe a bug or two, but all in all, it's just another boring Monday morning commute. Or at least that's how this guy looks to me.
The practical reality is that when making high speed flash photos, hummingbirds react to being repeatedly flashed just like we do. We hear the camera just before the flash, and if we have quick reflexes, like hummingbirds do, we automatically learn to blink before the flash. And that's what's happening here. If they found the flash really stressful, they wouldn't return, but in fact they do. Generally a bird will fight with other birds to protect "his" ownership of a feeder where a photographer is lurking, so obviously he's not all that bothered by it, though perhaps a little bored by the inordinate attention.
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July 6th, 2013
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