And this is a piece I like to call “Damn you, Autofocus! Damn you to Hell!”
Tag: Bees
Western Honey Bee (on white flowers)
Western Honey Bee
Honey Bees
Bees that buzz……
Yellow-faced Bumble Bee (on stringy purple flower)
Um, I’ll be sure to keep that in mind… 😬 #Beedril
Cup Full of Bees
At a large group picnic. Someone walked away from their soda or punch, and came back to find a cup full of bees…
This bee was crawling into one of these trumpet shaped flowers after another.
This bee was crawling into one of these trumpet shaped flowers after another. I finally decided to aim at the flower it had just climbed into, then wait for it to leave and see if I could catch it. Amazingly, it worked!
Western Honey Bee (on Blue Chalksticks)
Two crops of the same photo taken on a quick walk around the block…
Two crops of the same photo taken on a quick walk around the block. I really like the landscape crop showing the fiery skipper as it flies from one flower to the next…but after I cropped it, I noticed the bee also flying in the foreground of the original, and I just had to find a way to keep them both in the frame and still draw attention to them.
#nature #butterflies #bees #photo
On Photog.Social
Flickr: Skipping
Flickr: In Transit
iNat post
Realized this isn’t iceplant. INat suggests it’s in the Kleinia genus, but I’m not sure beyond that.
Follow-up: The plant is Blue Chalksticks.
Yellow-faced Bumble Bee (close-up on poppy, liftoff with pollen)
Bzzzzzz! A honey bee visiting clover flowers in the strip of lawn along the sidewalk.
Final Landing Approach! Another shot from the hike at the marsh preserve earlier this month….
Final Landing Approach!
Another shot from the hike at the marsh preserve earlier this month.
The flowers, apparently Matilija Poppies, had huge, flat white petals with these large yellow centers. They looked like fried eggs.
#flowers #bees #nature #photography
Oops… I realized I’ve already posted this one here. Well, I added more info this time, so at least it’s not a completely duplicate post. 🤦♂️
Final landing approach (honey bee and Matilija poppy)
Final landing approach….
(Same hike as the duck photo I posted earlier today.)
On Photog.Social
On Flickr
Matilija Poppy on iNaturalist
Bee on iNaturalist
Honey Bees
Buzzzzzzz…..
I was surprised the bee let me get this close with the camera.
I was surprised the bee let me get this close with the camera. I mean, it wasn’t as close as it looks – this is a crop – but still…
Lift-off!
Photo taken at: South Coast Botanic Garden
Lift-off!
Testing out the new phone’s camera on a bee. It has an option to …
Testing out the new phones camera on a bee. It has an option to add a second or so of video to still shots when it detects movement, which I figured I’d try out as well.
