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Technique: I'm not sure why it happens, but sometimes a bee's metabolism will drop and they become immobile. Sometimes it happens due to drops in temperature, or when the sun goes behind the clouds on a cool day. But that normally effects small solitary bees, not large ones like this bumblebee and it was at least 23C (73F) when I took this photo.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F13, 1/60, ISO 200) + a Canon EF-S 60mm macro lens with 25mm of extension + a diffused MT-24EX with head "A" set as the key and head "B" as the fill. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
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Strange how some people Sees their life a bad one and they wish if they were never here.
They wish if they never belong to it. Why they don’t think for a moment, why they are doing this to themselves, why they have to live this life in a bad way, forcing their life to go down and down & let all the negative things come up. Simply they even don’t try to turn the negative things to Positive because still they have in mind the life its bad.
Lots of people I know they wished if they were never born and see this life just because of simply stupid things that doesn’t worth to do and wish all this Such as looking for a job and fail to get the chance to have one, fail pass the driving license test, fail to pas school or college exams, fail to get married.. Etc.
There are lots of examples in life that makes some people wish if they were dead and never go through that.
You might say what this guy is talking about; this subject has nothing to do with the Ant shot.
Well I would simply answer Sorry but you are wrong, because what I saw in this ant made me feel proud and amazed at the same time of what life am living.
A few days ago I was in my room watching TV and having some nuts in my hand, when this small piece of nut fall down I didn’t pick it up. PLEASE wait don’t judge and say ohh this guy its not clean enough or lazy to pick the nut up, well no the thing that really stopped me doing that it’s the ant, unbelievable when this small ant came trying to carry that Piece of nut, he carried it for a while till it reached the line where you see in the shot.
He couldn’t push or pull it from there, the amazing part is when it started cutting the nut into pieces, yes into pieces and take them to the hole, at that moment I stopped watching the TV and grabbed my cam, witting for the tiny ant, I got this shot but I didn’t stop watching it. I was amazed how this ant didn’t leave the nut and started cutting it, exactly this is what goes with I said at the beginning of my writing, Why people Feel down or lose the hope when they fail once, cant they watch and look around them to see what ALLAH (GOD) created for us as examples yes real natural examples. Please people think twice or even more before losing your hope in something because one day am sure you can do it.
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Have you ever watched ants busy gathering juices of peony buds? I have.. For a couples of days actually, I have spent some time watching them fight over drops of juice and busily crawling all over my peony. Both days quite windy and it was a challenge to take macro shots, but I have managed to get a few good ones (I hope) despite constantly changing light and wind moving my subjects and them moving all the time...
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 had been trying, unsuccessfully, for a few weeks to get this shot. Every time I tried the bumblebee would just fly off. But after a break in the weather the critters were more hungry than afraid. I was baiting them on a flower and after getting them acclimated to me I held my finger close to a bumblebee and it took the bait. It's really cool when they realize that I have the sweet stuff and they lose their fear of me.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200) + a Canon EF-S 60mm macro lens with 25mm of extension (1.7x) + a diffused MT-24EX (flash head "A" set as the key and "B" as the fill, both on the Canon flash mount). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.