post it again, this time with attribution

[asakiyume]

I saw the beautiful image below--straight out of a children's story or a fable--on Facebook, but with no attribution. Some clever photographer had caught this moment of convivial interspecies refreshment, but who?

Fortunately, these days, you can put a photo's url into Google Images and search it out, and by doing so, I found it was by Toshiyasu Morita, a photographer who mainly makes portraits of cosplayers--but who also likes to photograph hummingbirds (and their bee friends).

Its original location on the interwebs is this post on Audubon California's blog.

So now we can make up stories about this hummingbird and those bees, and we can thank Mr. Morita for capturing the moment and sharing it with us.

Comments

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaah that's so cute! Hummingbird + bee friends FTW!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is so beautiful!

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

That's an amazing photo. Is she a ruby-throated?

[sovay]

So now we can make up stories about this hummingbird and those bees, and we can thank Mr. Morita for capturing the moment and sharing it with us.

I hadn't seen the photograph even unattributed, so thank you for sharing it! There could be a lot of good stories.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

That's so lovely I gasped aloud. And what a story prompt!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

That is an amazing pic!

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

WHat a lovely story image and world image. :D

[med_cat]

A wonderfully captured moment :)

[lizziebelle.livejournal.com]

That is an amazing picture. Thank you for tracking down the photographer!

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is an amazing photo! (But did it work, and did they get their true bodies back?)

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

"heeheeheeheehee look she can't even sit down"

"I could sit down. I totally could. I'm just too busy."

"heeheeheeheehee slurp believe that when i see it"