After watching my hummingbirds nectar repeatedly at my salvia plants, I was inspired to take my macro lens and explore the salvia bloom a bit closer. Flowers always amaze me with their detail that you never notice unless you look closely. So I tried to create an image that showed what a hummingbird would perceive as it nectars.
Notice anything pretty in the water droplets? :)
![Purple Salvia Water Droplet Refraction of Nectaring Hummingbird](https://i0.wp.com/www.blog.catandturtle.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/201711261_copyrightJessYarnell.jpg?resize=800%2C533)
To create this image, I took a flower, spritzed it with water, lit it, and arranged one of my favorite hummingbird photos in the background. In that photo, a Ruby-throated Hummingbird was nectaring at a black and blue salvia plant, which is a close cousin of the purple salvia in the foreground.
If you are curious, this next image was the original hummingbird image (the one refracted in the water droplets). Technically, if a hummer did see himself refracted, he’d see himself upside down (due to the physics of refraction).
![Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Nectaring at Black and Blue Salvia](https://i0.wp.com/www.blog.catandturtle.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Ruby-Throated-Hummingbird__200906031_copyrightJessYarnell.jpg?resize=800%2C534)
My mom says the flower close-up looks like a lizard with its tongue out. ;-)