Hummingbirds

Have you read this weekend the article on Digital Photography School on importance of waiting an patience for your photography? If not, i encourage you to open the link and read it, it is time well spent.

This weekend, I had a chance to exercise my patience and waiting for the right moment. At the Pike Peaks State Park in Iowa, there isn’t much of trails, it is mostly a place for family picnic and camping. Yet, just next to Visitors center, they have three feeders hanging, and really flocks of hummingbirds, if you can say so. As an interesting tidbit, there is only one species in Iowa, Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris).

Photographing hummingbirds certainly requires patience. Those tiny birds are a bit spooky, but only if you move around, change positions all the time. But just try, just for few minutes, standing or sitting still with your camera pointing to the feeder, they will come, as if you were not there at all. In fact, I had an experience with hummingbirds on my deck when they would fly few centimeters from my face to check me out, when I was sitting motionless, reading!