SUSPENDED SYMMETRY By Lizet Grobbelaar

SECOND RUNNER-UP A fleeting frame that allows the viewer to marvel at nature’s beauty and design, this shot shows a booted racket-tail hummingbird feeding on fuchsias in the Tandayapa Valley, Ecuador. Photographer Lizet Grobbelaar of Pretoria says, “A hummingbird beats its wings 80 times a second and rotates them in a figure eight to allow backward flight.” To get this shot, she “had to use flashes that offered a capability of 1/16 000th of a second”.