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?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

No, an Anna's. But beautiful! I love the close-up on the bees too. It makes me feel tiny, looking at this picture--this is how the world is if you're tiny!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? I love how delicately both types of creature are drinking--but so differently.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I know, right! It makes me think of the cuckoo in the tinier bird's nest, only an extreme case of it, and the tinier bird is actually bees.

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah, he's on the west coast. I didn't see the link.

[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!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I like seeing the bees that close up. I've never seen bees drinking before. And a hummingbird that close up is a totally other creature.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Right?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

A lovely moment--so glad the guy was there with his camera to capture it.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I like the world image too!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Apparently the photographer sets up and then just waits patiently--and sometimes moments like this are his reward.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

As a photographer yourself, I know you appreciate attribution ♥

[med_cat]

I see :) Thanks for sharing it with us!

May I repost to my LJ?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Sure; I'd be honored!

[med_cat]

Thanks!

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

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

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I wonder! It all depends on whether the instructions for finding the healing spring were the real thing or a forgery, I suppose, and whether the deity they offended feels mollified or not.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the thing, I guess. How do you know what to believe? But at some point it doesn't matter. If you need to save your kingdoms from the Great Dying, you'll just have to do what the crazy wizard says because there are no other options...

[sovay]

I've never seen bees drinking before.

Me neither, actually. Only from flowers.

And a hummingbird that close up is a totally other creature.

It is significantly more of a dragon.

[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"

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! Perfect.