hover flies are still around, reliable pollinators!

Centennial Park, Etobicoke, ON

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This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera and Carl Zeiss S-Planar 1:5.6 f=120mm lens mounted on a Hasselblad 21mm extension tube using Fuji 400-H film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized with Photoshop.

While at the balloon fest we came across some cactus that had flowered. I then saw a bee in one of the flowers. It was amazing watching to move inside the flower gathering more and more pollen.

With a bonus fly!

Mount Pleasant Walkabout

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Montana de Oro State Park,

San Luis Obispo Co., California

I found this wasp on Goldenrod in WEstern Pennsylvania.

The fields around Hursley are planted with oilseed rape this year and it's just starting to explode with colour and seemed like a suitable test for the PX680 β film. This was fully shielded from the bright sunshine by the old shoot into a bag thing. Colour seems pretty good, but it's a shame the hazy background sky is blown out.

Polaroid Spirit 600, Close-Up +3, Impossible Project PX680 Color Shade β

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Pollinators

Pollinating...

Wild Bee

Whilst unsuccessfully trying to photograph busy bees in my garden, I managed to capture this hoverfly which stayed still a little longer for me.

Spring is coming......

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It is milkweed’s time in the garden. Ants are crawling all over the sticky blooms which smell so sweet!

Stapelia grows and flowers well outdoors in SE Brazil. Theses plants grow in a garden in Campinas, São Paulo State, in spite of a much rainier climate than that of their original habitat

Mamiya C330

Kodak Ektar 100

September 2011

Pollination at the MSV

Canon EOS 7D Sigma 150-500 f5-6.3 aperture priority hand held at f8

Despite being mainly hunters, wasps may also play the role of pollinators sometimes. In the photo: a wasp consuming floral resources in Serra do Cipó, Brazil.

Not sure what kinda wasp this is, it was about an inch in length with sizable wings too.

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Coombs Dale, Stoney Middleton 19042021

Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Superior, Arizona

A little busy Bee : ))

Hope everyone is having a great week.

Large View On Black

Exif data

Camera Olympus E-620

Exposure 0.003 sec (1/400)

Aperture f/3.2

Focal Length 105 mm

ISO Speed 100

Exposure Bias +0.3 EV

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An early mining bee on top of a blue daisy.

Photographed in my garden with a reversed 50mm lens.

July 2023 - Unseen 2023

A very popular spot

this is part of unseen 2023, my annual look back through the year via pictures that did not make it to Flickr the first time around