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The bad weather is really making it tough for the local pollinators. I was shooting this waterlogged Mason Bee when he started cleaning the water off of his fur.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 200 due to Highlight Tone Priority) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (3x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT ("A" flash head on a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC, second curtain sync). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
We took the old Mason Lake Trail up to Mason Lake. Our progress was delayed by the many wonderful waterfalls along the way.
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.
The George Mason Memorial is a memorial to Founding Father George Mason, the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights that inspired the United States Bill of Rights. The Memorial is located in West Potomac Park within Washington, D.C. at 24 E Basin Drive SW, which is a part of the Tidal Basin. Authorized in 1990, with a groundbreaking in 2000 and dedication in 2002, the memorial includes a sculpture of Mason, a pool, trellis, circular hedges, and numerous inscriptions. It was the first memorial in the Tidal Basin area to be dedicated to someone who was not a former President of the United States .
Mason Tank - AESTHETIC ! {red}
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22 October 2020
Masons, Cheddington H804 BKK
Northern Counties bodied Leyland Olympian
ex Stagecoach East Kent 14804 and Red Kite, Tilsworth
Aylesbury Schools Service
Snelshall St, Tattenhoe, Milton Keynes
Bouncing over the failed road surface by the bridge, not a suspension issue!
Taken in Mason, Ohio.
There are three butterflies on this wall which is in the back of a small parking lot and not particularly visible from the street which is a shame as the art won't be seen by as many people as it might be if located in a different place. It deserves more recognition.
Masons arms...Market place...Doncaster.
A 200 year old alehouse for the mature drinker, it prides itself on being an establishment that gives you the opportunity to talk quietly over a pint of Real ale.
Saw this cool bee house at Calvin Ecosystem Preserve.
Shoot52 - 2020
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Iowa Traction Railway steeple cab number 60 pulls a handful of cars along 19th Street SW in Mason City, Iowa on August 6, 2019. If my information is correct, #60 is 102 years old.
21 June 2023
Masons, Cheddington LJ03 MDY
ex Arriva London South as DLA345 and Holmeswood Coaches
DAF DB250/Alexander ALX400
Snelshall St, Tattenhoe, Milton Keynes
22 September 2020
Masons, Cheddington YN03 DFE
ex Metrobus 459 and Beestons, Hadleigh
Scania N94UD / East Lancs
Long Marston Road, Cheddington
On January 24, 1875, a group of Masons in Linkville (now Klamath Falls). asked Warren Lodge #10 of Jacksonville to sponsor a new Lodge in Linkville. This was granted on February 17, 1875 and a dispensation granted on April 9, 1875. It was not to be known as Klamath Lodge. However, these plans did not materialize and they surrendered their records and dispensations on March 3, 1876.
The organization of Klamath Lodge was started again in 1879, and on July 16, 1879 a dispensation was granted by Grand Master Rocky Preston Earhart for Klamath Lodge U.D. at Linkville, Lake County, this time being sponsored by Ashland Lodge #23, Ashland.
The charter was granted on June 15, 1880 for Klamath Lodge #77. Alex P. McCarton was the first Worshipful Master. He had played a very instrumental part in the forming of the lodge in 1879.
From a recent press/promo photo shoot for Mason Bach. Considering that it was rounding on -20C that night, with the wind whipping around us at 20-30mph, he was a real trooper.
Shot in an alley off Shaw St. (Toronto) using an AB800 in a Westcott Apollo 28-inch softbox, plus a barebulb AB400 behind him lighting the wall. Both lights were plugged into the Vagabond II which was sitting in the back of a van in an attempt to keep it warm. Triggered with PocketWizards.
The Master Mason
Beaumaris Castle
Isle of Anglesey
North Wales
'The Master Mason' depicts James of St George, master of the King's work in Wales, with details representing the tools and marks of his craft,
Sculpted by Sebastien Boyesen, 2016.
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Mae 'Y Pen-saer Maen' yn dangos James o St George, meistr gwaith y brenin yng Nghymru, gyda manylion yn cynrychioli offer ac ar wyddion ei grefft.
Y cerflun gan Sebastien Boyesen, 2016.
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The Mason depot is a tough one to shoot but after months of looking at it I finally found something that works. Over the years the depot has gone through some renovations, remodels and upgrades and turned into a restaurant so heating and cooling was added to the track side of the building making it impossible to shoot. leaving just this angle open. I cooked the shot a bit with the two further flashes but this was a damn difficult angle to pull off to avoid shadows. Here the night train to Jackson departs Mason with traffic for the NS.
I have a couple of Mason Bee houses by the patio and they are all a buzz with industrious bees making their nests in the tubes.
Blathered about more here:
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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14 June 2022
Masons, Cheddington LJ03 MVD
ex Arriva London South as DLA372 and Holmeswood Coaches
DAF DB250/Alexander ALX400
Snelshall St, Tattenhoe, Milton Keynes