Tourmaline Sunangel flapping, Jardin, Colombia

Since Europe has no hummingbirds, I had zero experience photographing these ultra quick birds at feeder sites. At the beginning of our trip, I most used the macro lens combined with forward-facing ring flash. With some distance, my 105mm macro lens essentially becomes a portrait lens. This approach works, but you still have to get very close to the birds, and therefore miss many shots as they will avoid you. By being close, you also don't have a good overview of movement.

On this last day of our trip, I used a way different approach. Note the 550mm focal length, which is my 80-400mm + extender. So this is from quite a distance. And that's great, because the birds are not interfered, acting more naturally. You need big flash to cover this kind of distance in daylight, luckily I have a great one, the SB910.