• bees,  flowers,  insects,  Plants

    Always on the move

    August 30, 2014
    Moving On
    Moving On

    Trying to shoot any insect that’s capable of flying is a challenge. They are always moving. They are not moving as fast our universe,  so eloquently explained by Paul in his posting on the Milky way. However,  they are elusive and ddarters, tough on auto focus systems. I noticed several bees hovering over these flowers and knelt down to watch and tRyan to get some shots. Even though the bee is blurry, I was pleased with this image. He’s airborne and most of those images are blurry. This one’s in focus enough for posting but not printing. Another reason I like this image is the large glob (technical term) of pollen on his leg that can be clearly seen during flight.

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  • bees,  insects

    Thirsty Bee

    June 28, 2013
    Drinking Water
    Drinking Water

    My sister has a small fountain in her backyard. I love the soothing sound that it makes. I was amazed to watch the bees and wasps as they gathered around the fountain to take in water. Since bees are not know to be good swimmers they prefer to find water in small puddles. The bees find all the small pebbles around the fountain, perch on the pebbles and begin lapping up the water. Nature gave me another lesson.

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  • bees,  flowers,  landscape,  sunrises,  sunsets,  trees

    A Few Favorites

    January 1, 2013

    At this time of the year a few photographers begin posting their best images from the past year, something I’ve never done. Well, I thought I would look back over the year and pick what I considered are my best. I started adding images to a quick collection and by the time I went through the year I had 67 images in my collection. I’m not that good so I turned off the computer. This was not going to be easy.

    The next day I made a pass through these 67 images and dropped it down to 48. Waited for the next day and repeated the process until I had whittled it down to these 12. I finally just picked one image from each month. It was more difficult than I thought and not because I have that many good images. It occurred to me I was selecting images I liked and not necessarily the best or of the highest quality. I therefore changed my criteria to select the ones I liked, my favorites, rather than my best. Some are HDR images as I played the software and the one image of the flowers and bee was taken with the G12, everything else was with the D300. Even after posting these images I will want to add others and delete these. Never satisfied.

    Oh, and Happy New Year. I do hope the coming year of 2013 is good to you and your family. Happy shooting. 🙂

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  • bees,  Canon Powershot G12,  flowers,  insects,  Plants

    Flowers and a Bee

    August 1, 2012
    Sunday Observer

    I plopped down on the ground and braced my elbows on my knees to get images of these flowers. The bees were all over the place so I impatiently waited for one of them to come into the viewfinder then shot’em. No harm was done to the flower or the bee. Got the seat of my pants wet but us photogs don’t care. We walk back to our car with dirty britches. 🙂

    Hope everyone has a good August!

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  • bees,  insects

    Natures Surprises

    July 15, 2009
    Bumble Bee
    Bumble Bee and Dotted Blazing Star

    Nature is always changing and presenting us with surprises. This bumble bee is an example of such a surprise. I was in Blendon Woods park playing around with my white balance preset, you know the adage, practice makes perfect, when this bee decided to get in the image. As a photographer, I had no problems with that. 

    Life is also constantly changing. Big and little surprises enter our lives on a daily basis. How do we handle the surprises in life? do we accept them or fight against them? Do we run away from them? I kinda like surprises, myself!

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