Faster than the speed of shutter

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.