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At 15 years of age, two of our four cats passed in 2020. Mason and his sister, Mollie, remain, but are nearly 16. It is time to celebrate their lives more fully.
A walk around Central London to look at the Christmas lights 🎄 Fortnum and Masons known as “The Queen’s Grocer” selling the best small & large handwoven wicker luxury food hampers !! There is an food hall selling worldwide products & if you fancy some Beluga Caviar from 12 year old whales & it’s available !! for delivery.Also in store are the best luxury gifts for all the family. I watched a TV program about this world renowned store.
I recently was hired out to take some photos for the band Mason from West Palm Beach, FL
They were playing as "Fight in you" but decided to change their name back and start adding their old songs to their setlist (which I was very excited about)
Big ups to Randy Hernz - www.flickr.com/photos/yostuhfoo/ for helping on this shoot!
Check out the band at www.myspace.com/wearemason
View this larger in the promo section of my site!
It was sunny and warm enough this morning for the critters to get active, but it got cloudy and the temperature dropped so I went looking for something to photograph. I found a male European Blue Mason Bee semi-active on a Dandelion and decided to go for a high magnification portrait.
Osmia caerulescens
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (4x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order. I positioned the subject close to a marble step so I could use it as a reflector for the flash to keep the background from being black.
Another cool, partly cloudy day so I went looking for solitary bees since they have a tough time staying active in this weather. Although this female Mason Bee might look ferocious she's just chattering her mandibles in an attempt to get her metabolism going so she can get away from that jerk with the camera ;) I'm not sure if this is a Red or a European Blue Mason, the males are easier for me to identify.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (over 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order.
Mason, Texas, TX. Rural, landscape, countryside, nature, tree, iPhone, iPhoneography, Hipstamatic, HipstaPrint, Ȯggl.
After a cold snap we have spring like conditions and this male Blue Mason Bee hatched today. A bit messy cause he hasn't had a chance to clean himself off. After warming up on my finger he took flight.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/60, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (over 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI and Clarity in that order. I dragged the shutter to help expose the natural light in the background.
At the moment the rescue group I help out have ben inundated with kittens that we have to say no at the moment due to not having enough room or carers. so I hope little Mason finds a home soon.
*This is not one of the tabby brothers but another kitten from another litter.
I purchased my first, solitary, bee hotel in the spring of 2018. It was quickly discovered by Mason and Leafcutter bees and by the end of the first summer, I had almost "full occupancy." The bee hotel was placed on a shelf in the garage for the winter to protect the developing larvae from sub-zero temperatures. The following spring, it was placed back on the front porch in the same location near the garden where the bees forage. Unlike, honey bees, solitary bees only travel a few hundred feet from where they emerge. I added a second bee hotel during the early summer of 2019 and both hotels had nearly "full occupancy" by the end of the summer of 2019 and again in 2020. It has been amazing to observe the female bees go back and forth from the garden collecting pollen, cutting bits of plant material or gathering mud, then returning to the bee hotel to begin the egg laying process. Once they choose a “nesting tube” they crawl to the far end to begin. The female bee places her provisions, pollen with some sticky nectar that she rolls into a ball, then lays a single egg on the top. Next, she seals the egg into a “cell” with mud or leaf material (depending on which species she is) and repeats this process until the tube is filled the whole way to the front. One female solitary bee can lay about 5-15 eggs depending on the length of the tube. Once the eggs hatch, the larvae feed on the provisions, then form cocoons, and don’t emerge until the following spring. Each year, I would bring the bee hotels out from winter storage, but missed their emergence in 2019 and 2020. However, on March 31, 2021, our first really warm day, I happened to look out the kitchen window, which faces the porch and noticed a swarm of small bees flying around the bee hotels, the porch and even resting on the aluminum siding of the house. They were warming themselves in the sun! I was able to determine that these were all Mason Bees because the bees that were emerging were all breaking through the tubes that were sealed with mud. I observed the male Mason bees fly back to the nesting holes to check on whether the female bees were emerging. The males could apparently detect where the females were and would remain on the bee hotel, to attempt mating as soon as a female came out or would even enter the tube to mate before she emerged. At times, several male bees would pile onto the female, fighting to mate with her, often falling to the ground. As each new bee made its way to the opening of a tube, their tiny faces could be seen peering out from the tubes. Each emerging bee would cautiously come to the edge, clean their antennae with their feet, quiver for a moment, then take their first flight! Since the weather has turned cold again and there aren't many flowers yet, the bees are staying inside. On the intermittent warm days, they emerge to work on cleaning out the tubes, as evidenced by bits of dried mud all over the porch, just below the bee hotels!
As of the time of this posting, the Leafcutter Bees have not emerged, as the holes are still sealed with the plant materials used. This photo series was taken over two hours and is only a small portion of the total number taken of the amazing event.
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Red mason bees (Osmia bicornis) are excellent pollinators and are solitary in nature. Females guard their own cells from other Mason bees, but are safe to be around as long as you respect their space. They form mud capsules around their eggs, and pack each cell full of pollen.
Replaced by 2 "newer" old units these two Adrian & Blissfield GP9's are parked outside at the shop in Mason, Michigan with an uncertain future - January 14, 2023
Mason was one of a four-kitten litter gifted to us in 2005 by a little pregnant stray we named Coconut. Sixteen years of wonderful memories would follow. Thank you, Coconut.
50mm, f/2, AI Nikkor
With no work in Effingham, CN A408 passes through the town of Mason, Illinois as it rolls on down towards Centralia. Mason was named for Roswell B. Mason, former Chief Engineer of the Illinois Central and the 25th Mayor of Chicago.
On the way to the falls I found these little falls. Masons Falls is not accessible to the bottom, yet! That's for another day when I have more time, equipment and support in the mean time this will have to do...
Male of Megachile (Chalicodoma) parietina.
Technique: It was a cool day (18C) with partly cloudy skies and intermittent light showers -perfect weather to go looking for solitary bees since they'll have a tough time keeping their metabolism up. I got lucky and found this Mason bee semi-dormant in my Lavender.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 3x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black. I n post I used Topaz Labs Sharpen AI, Denoise AI, and Clarity.
Male of Megachile (Chalicodoma) parietina.
Technique: After photographing this mason bee in my lavender I turned it loose in a plant on my patio while I went to have lunch. Evidently the little guy got active and had lunch as well, because this is how I found him later on that same afternoon. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I used an artificial flower to keep the background from being black.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (about 3x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering).
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Mason, 2005-2021, was the last living of a four kitten litter. 50mm, 1.4, Olympus G. Zuiko, Auto-S manual focus lens.
Fuji X-E1, Fuji 18mm lens. Mason's Yard is the location of The Scotch of St. James club, where Yoko Ono and John Lennon partied after (or before - it's unclear) they met at the Indica Gallery.
Mason, Texas, TX. Rural, landscape, countryside, nature, tree, iPhone, iPhoneography, Hipstamatic, HipstaPrint, Ȯggl.
This is Baby Mason. He was born about a month early so his lungs were "wet" so he has the feeding tubes in and is in NICU. Other than this is healthy and should be fine and be able to go home in the next week.
If you are a vintage organ lover, weep. It's still in fairly good condition considering its age, but it is gradually falling to bits. And all around the floor and on the organ itself is evidence of the trapped birds that somehow flew in, but were never able to leave again. As I said yesterday, a horror show inside.
Mason & Hamlin were an American piano and organ maker in the 19th century. They were based in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Interestingly enough, they were founded in 1854, a year before this chapel was built.
The first male Red Mason bee of the year in our garden on the bee hotel. The Red Mason Bees are solitary bees that live in aggregations, but each bee is working for itself. They use holes such as hollow plant stems, or holes in walls and wood to lay their eggs. Each female bee provisions the cavity with pollen, and when she has collected enough she will lay an egg and seal the nest chamber. Mason Bees seal the entrance with mud. When the egg hatches, the tiny 1.5mm larvae eats the stored pollen. The larvae pupate in the late summer and overwinter as fully developed adults, wrapped up in a protective cocoon. Red Mason Bees have a single flight period, from spring usually coinciding with the flowering of Apple Blossom. The male Red Mason bees emerge first and tend to wait in the area waiting for the females to emerge. The females tend to emerge anywhere between several days to two weeks after the first male.
These emerged a few days ago, but they disappeared when the weather took a turn for the worse. Today was really nice and warm and got up to 62F. The bees were out again! There are several sub-species of mason bees, not all of them are the shiny green you usually see in photos.. They don't have hives, but instead nest in holes...either those made for them in "bee houses" that humans provide, or holes found in nature. Each female bee makes her own nest, and lays and cares for her own eggs.