Auroral Hummingbird over Norway
Is this the largest hummingbird ever? Although it may look like a popular fluttering nectarivore, what is pictured is actually a beautifully detailed and colorful aurora, complete with rays reminiscent of feathers. This aurora was so bright that it was visible to the unaided eye during blue hour -- just after sunset when the sky appears a darkening blue.
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There's no way this is real, but he has a lot of great photos on his site
https://mickaelcoulon.fr/aurores-boreales/
It's a long exposure. But yeah the Aurora can be rather bright given geography, atmospheric, solar conditions, and luck. Definitely easy to get views like this with the naked eye closer to the Arctic circle.
Sure, but that a long exposure will end up like a hummingbird is what I'm questioning
If it was real it would have been featured on the artists page at least no?
It looks as much like a hummingbird as a cloud can look like an elephant. The viewer has already been prompted to see a hummingbird, and humans are very good at finding a pattern in something random. I can easily believe it to be real, but I'm not sold on the idea that it particularly resembles anything significant.