蜂鸟翅膀像彩虹一样闪闪发光的神奇照片
Just when we think we’ve seen everything, nature finds another way to amaze us. Artist and photographer Christian Spencer was spending the day on his verandah in Rio de Janeiro when he noticed something wonderful. The sun striking the wings of a Jacobin hummingbird, producing a beautiful prism effect. At that moment, it looked as if the tiny birdy was a tiny flying rainbow.
就在我们以为自己已经看到了一切的时候，大自然却以另一种方式让我们惊奇。艺术家兼摄影师克里斯蒂安·斯宾塞在巴西里约热内卢的自家阳台上度过了一天，这时他注意到了一些奇妙的事情。阳光照射在雅可比蜂鸟的翅膀上，产生了美丽的棱镜效果。在那一刻，这只小鸟看起来就像一道小小的彩虹。
Christian Spence captured the sun illuminating a black Jacobin hummingbird
克里斯蒂安·斯宾塞捕捉到太阳照亮了一只黑色雅可比蜂鸟
It created is a prism effect which makes it look as though the creature’s body is as colorful as a rainbow
它创造了一种棱镜效果，让它看起来就像彩虹一样五颜六色
“There is no special technique, just diffraction of light through the wings of this special hummingbird”
“没有什么特殊的技术，只有光通过这种特殊蜂鸟翅膀的衍射。”
In 2011, Spencer captured the bird’s movements for a film called The Dance of Time. Since then, it has received 10 international awards as well as three best film honors. But there were more rainbow hummingbirds to come. A few years later, Spencer revisited the subject. “I decided to try and photograph the same phenomenon with my camera,” he said. His latest creative endeavors resulted in a series called Winged Prism, and for Spencer, the images reveal “a secret of nature that cannot be seen with our eyes.”
2011年，斯宾塞在一部名为《时间之舞》的电影中捕捉到了这种鸟的动作。从那时起，它已经获得了10个国际奖项以及3个最佳电影奖。但彩虹蜂鸟还会飞来。几年后，斯宾塞重新审视了这个话题。“我决定试着用我的相机拍下同样的现象，”他说。他最新的创作成果是一系列名为“有翼棱镜”的作品，对斯宾塞来说，这些照片揭示了“我们肉眼无法看到的自然秘密”。
Spencer said he didn’t use any digital manipulation while creating the series. “There is no special technique,” he explained, “just diffraction of light through the wings of this special hummingbird.”
斯宾塞说，他在创作这个系列时没有使用任何数字操作。“没有什么特殊的技术，”他解释说，“只是光通过这种特殊蜂鸟翅膀的衍射。”
“Nobody ever could have ever dreamed that this was a reality. I receive emails every day from people across the world touched by these images.”
“没有人会想到这是真的。我每天都收到来自世界各地被这些照片感动的人们的电子邮件。”
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