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It's been a while since I played with my macro lens. Not exactly sure what type of hornet/bee this is... if you know, please leave a comment. Thanks for looking!
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Eastern Carpenter Bee (xylocopa virginica) on an Ox Eye Sunflower (Heliopsis Helianthoides). Also known as 'False Sunflower'. Mary Kistler Stoney memorial flower garden, New Bern, North Carolina
It was a nice day to take some macro shots. This one is hand held on continuous auto-focus. It has some nice detail if you zoom in.
At the west side of Willow Lake in an area that was submerged before summer lies a field of floweres soon to be gone as the nights begin to get chilly.
A female Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva) in our Staffordshire garden yesterday.
It was a great day for bee photography. The day before had been warm and sunny and lots of bees had been active. They it turned chilly and some of those that ventured out got "stranded"; waiting for some sunshine. An opportunity not to be missed!
...and I need to wear my climbing helmet on a simple walk with camera. A week ago Sunday at the end of our trail walk I tripped onto concrete. I have learned to fall and roll, mostly, but did land on my head a bit too hard.
Thus, while taking it slower this week, I'll post this from 29 May, 2018. The date shown on the exif data is wrong. The new camera needed a tiny new battery for the date.
I hope you take care if you're looking up or at birds or bees or composing a landscape photo while walking. Only the lens cap and my head chipped a bit, and we can't replace the head.
This sleepy bumblebee was in the middle of the path in Regent's Park on a cloudy, cold morning. It was in danger of being accidentally crushed as people walked along, so my lovely daughter rescued it to the grass by the path using a sycamore seed! (She is kind, but not brave enough to touch a bee!)
Bee's are fascinating me at the moment, there are so many different types and all heavily laden with different coloured pollen hanging form their legs. Not an easy task to capture but these tend to linger a fraction longer for a shot !
I have a dedicated macro lens, but I almost never use it because the tg-2 is just so much more fun and practical. I don't know the species here, so any help would be welcome. Bee, Olympia, Washington.
Well into the dreary part of fall now, so this shot is a colourful memory of a summer that lasted will into September...
Pentax D-FA 100mm F/2.8 Macro plus Raynox DCR-250, with off-camera diffused Yongnuo YN-560 III flash. Towards infinity on the lens. Reds are a bit off the chart on this one...
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