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5 seconds at the feeder

Larry Fallon
2 min readMay 31, 2023
Ruby Throated Hummingbird photo by Larry Fallon

This sequence of photos covers 5 seconds in my life. I have to wonder how time flies for hummingbirds. The accelerated life they live, how fast their wings move, how quickly the dart in and dart out of the frame of view. Is all that just 5 seconds of their life too?

Less than a second later photo by Larry Fallon
up and back then pausing photo by Larry Fallon
photo by Larry Fallon
another sip another second photo by Larry Fallon
photo by Larry Fallon

Shooting at 1/5000th of a second shutter speed, Nikon D7100 on cluster setting the second and third seconds have elapsed.

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Larry Fallon
Larry Fallon

Written by Larry Fallon

Avid reader, writer, meditator and aging hippie. Creative activities each day, writing, photography, and day dreaming, all keep me coming back tomorrow.

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This sequence of photos covers 5 seconds in my life. I have to wonder how time flies for hummingbirds. The accelerated life they live, how fast their wings move, how quickly the dart in...

This is just fabulous! You are so right about so much happening in 5 seconds. I think about this all the time when I am photographing the hummingbirds. They just move so fast. But you can see so much in their little faces in a photograph.

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