8/23/2013
kMoe
It was a summer morning spending time on a little garden of flowers, aimlessly drifting away in thought. Lucky for
me I had a camera when many of the butterflies and little insects came to feed on
their pollen. Now this post is not about the subject of the thoughts but rather
an amazing little insect or bird that passed by. Tiny as it was, the speed of the flutter of
its wings gave it the look of an insect, but the finesse of its flight with a
beak as thin as the head of a needle and the segmented body of a sea creature
this wonder of nature still has me wondering whether it was a bird. To probe
into the creature was to keep it still in time with the camera, it turned into
a battle of capture as it jumped from flower to flower with the speed only a
high shutter speed could conquer.
It seemed success would be achieved through a
quick shutter speed, and pulling it tighter and tighter would only limit the
image as it got dimmer and dimmer, as I feared it would slowly disappear and be
just a mere memory the rays of the sun
pierced through to save the day and illuminated the flowerbed as if the storm
has just passed, but the ballet had just begun as now armed with a quick
shutter it became a game of chase, clicking away in and around the shadows it would be until later that I would see the
bounty as I got hints of the creature, here I share the spoils….enjoy this
wonder I share.
