Preflight Maintenance
Nearly every flying insect will do some preflight maintenance -clean their eyes, wings, and antenna before take off. This Sweat Bee was so comfortable with me that he did his preflight maintenance while sitting on my finger. They are still sleeping in my Geranium flowers, but now two leaves have formed a clam shell and they are snoozing in the middle of it.
Possibly Halictus sexcinctus.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F14, 1/250, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to over 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI and Clarity in that order.
Preflight Maintenance
Nearly every flying insect will do some preflight maintenance -clean their eyes, wings, and antenna before take off. This Sweat Bee was so comfortable with me that he did his preflight maintenance while sitting on my finger. They are still sleeping in my Geranium flowers, but now two leaves have formed a clam shell and they are snoozing in the middle of it.
Possibly Halictus sexcinctus.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F14, 1/250, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to over 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI and Clarity in that order.