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This female Sweat Bee looks like she's eating this flower's stamen, but she's really rust trying to anchor herself while she packs pollen onto her hind legs. Also looked like she was trying to strip pollen off with her mandibles.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F16, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (> 2x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on Kaiser adjustable flash shoes). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Technique: It was windy, so it was easy for me to grab onto the flower that the bee was in without spooking it. Once I had the flower's stem in my left index finger and thumb I I rested the lens on that same hand and waited until I could get an angle that would make the most out of the shallow depth at almost 3x. Lots and lots of frames...
Note the pollen stuffed into hairy receptacles on the hind legs.
A bee can carry about half her weight in pollen. This was taken in the center of a calla lily.
Photo by Charlotte Blanchet – Lotus Blanc
Bloody Aliens never clean up after themselves, and who has to collect their garbage? Bloody ole Ben who never did nothing wrong but accidentally crashing his spaceship. Never tole that old meteorite to be in the same place!
On a side note: That bag of tiny liquorice has been waiting for about two months to be opened and being used as a prop for some Lego scene. Inspiration did not come easy on them.
Toy Project Day 1521
“Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego” (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
For my dear friend, Birgit, whose friendship has inspired me to shed a few shells.
© COPYRIGHT. Dragon Papillon Photography. All rights reserved. 2014.
Not quite sure what this guy is going to do with these containers of seawater but made a good shot. Wish I had had time to switch lenses and get a closer view.
"Autumn collection"
Nagoya (Japon 2008)
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S'ist wieder Herbst geworden...
I'm keeping a diary of sunrises:
About every other day, I shoot the view from my window and collect the pics in a gallery here: Views from my window and the few that made "explore"
Gameboy Advance SP
Cleaning out the basement and moving around boxes leads to lots of "finds" in our house, which I expect is a common experience for most of us. This Gameboy was the best "find" and is being sent to my daughter, the real owner!
I captured this image of a Purple Martin at the Nature Station, Land between the Lakes, Kentucky. The Nature Station had a purple martin habitat in the parking lot, but I found that the martins were collecting leaves from this tree and flying back to their homes with them. I suspect they were adding them as nesting material.
Taken 6 May 2016.
La collection de vaisselle de la Manufacture Royale des Glaces comprend des pièces en faïence de Sarreguemines, Digoin, Badonviller, Choisy-le-Roi, Creil et Montereau, Saint-Amand, Terre de fer...
Elle comprend quelques pièces des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles.
La majorité des assiettes et plats exposés datent de la première moitié du XXe.
(Pour les collectionneurs : la collection de vaisselle comprend des doubles qui peuvent être vendus.
Se renseigner sur place)
This original drawing depicts the Grim Reaper in a strikingly terrifying manner, with exposed bones and a chilling presence. The Reaper sails in a boat and silently collects the souls of drowned sailors, fulfilling her eternal duty. The powerful and haunting image evokes dark fear, symbolizing mortality and the passage into the unknown, reflecting the essence of the Grim Reaper's role as a harbinger of the inevitable.