Hummingbird Shakes Off Bee at Feeder

Occurred on January 20, 2023 / Ecuador

: "One of my favorite shots from my last trip to Ecuador...and a shot that I chased to exhaustion in search of the hummingbird-bees interactions that I witnessed so many times and that I could capture so few times. Slow motion makes it easier to capture these ultra-fast moments that in real life go completely unnoticed by us.
The first problem is the hours needed to film these few milliseconds, and the second is the level of technical equipment behind each shot. To make matters worse, due to the tiny size of the protagonists, the focus becomes critical, and keeping the protagonists in the right focal plane is an ordeal. But for shots like this, it all makes sense!"