A nice fresh specimen that has been carefully prepared makes all the difference. That and the light!

I've heard it argued that because we are often attempting to make determinations on specimens in poor condition, it is misleading to show pristine examples as illustrations in keys. But I would argue that the disfigured bees are distracting. It is easier to understand a character when you can see it clearly. If you know exactly what the character looks like under ideal conditions, then you can look at your specimen and go, "Oh, if the hairs weren't matted down, they might look like such and such." or "The shape of that process is clearly triangular, and by tipping my specimen back forth, I think I can see it. And if I knock off a few hairs with a pin, why there it is, CLEAR AS A BELL!"

And what do we want, if not clarity? We take a lot of effort to preserve specimens so the data they represent is available in the future. Photography also preserves data for use down the road. Proper preparation of photographic subjects is time well spent! You learn your bees character by character, until you grok them well enough that you can often make determinations at a glance. At the very least, you can narrow down the possibilities lickety-split. Clean clear images speed that process, ultimately improving BEES PER HOUR!

(Left bee: a couple hours in the bowl and right onto a pin and then photographed within a week. Right bee: either a kill jar or a days-long soak in the bowl and frozen then prepped and pinned months later and photographed months after that. Yuck.)

a pound difference when they were born.

now 9 months old...they are about almost 3 lbs weight difference.

chieko mari is the one on the left

chihiro anne is the one on the right

Tore Johansen, Difference

© Per Atle Eliassen

Difference in black buckram from LBC & L-R

Photo credit: Rebecca Irelan, N.H. Sea Grant

It's like a simple game,

one image,

several subjects similar ,

something different ....

play this game !

I'm getting the hang of life differences

E' come un semplice gioco,

una immagine,

diversi soggetti simili,

qualcosa di diverso ....

gioca !

sto facendo pratica con le differenze della vita

Ladies Driving Challenge Inverness Sept 2nd 2012

Stein Olsen, Difference

© Per Atle Eliassen

Ready Rating Members enjoy learning more about the Red Cross and how the Ready Rating Program has made a difference in the surrounding community

The Difference @ Programme 9/14/25

They never cease to amaze me. :)

You can read more about my review of this fantastic restaurant here: fruitofadventure.com/2012/06/22/review-bake-the-differenc...

These two really went for it with each other.....ego in the animal world or possibly territory/food etc.....

Opportunity sol 3325 ( Jun 1, 2013 ) enhanced difference false color of Solander Point, Endeavour crater, Meridiani Plain, Mars.

Neighborhood volunteer connection assignment

Comcast Internet Essentials Make a Difference Luncheon at Memphis Botanical Gardens on Friday, Sept. 6, 2019 in Memphis. (Joy Asico/Comcast 2019)

Please don't use this image and words on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. All rights reserved. © m041258 | 2011

Height difference.

Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Nikon D700 + Ai AF NIKKOR 28/2.8

First working Difference engines were built by Scheutz brothers (not Babbage).

Difference Engine Detail

The bottle on the right is my usual bottle that I like to woodfire. It is made of B-mix. The bottle on the left is one of my porcelain bottles. I don't like the porcelain bottles anymore. I've decided to gas fire them as soon as I can. I am still wanting to fire some copper reds.

Ladies Driving Challenge Inverness Sept 2nd 2012

Unveling Quilting Differences at Queens University of Charlotte by Artist Edwin Gil

Me and Samantha on the 4th of July. Photo taken by the convinient windowsill away from the rain.

Here's a picture of Norio made by getting the difference in each pixel between a color image and an IR image.