A busy little native bee collecting nectar and pollinating Paper Daisies in the sunshine. These flowers are in a pot on our deck. They close up when it’s dull and raining and open again on bright days.



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Wonderful shots!
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Thanks Peter, 60mm Macro, a single hand-held image @ f10. Not focus stacked.
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You did well, and the colours as well as the details are amazing!
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I’ve learnt not to trust Auto colour balance in the Olympus, “cloudy” seems to give the best results in most settings, even when it’s sunny. This was also ISO800 so I could close the aperture a bit for depth of field and keep shutter speed reasonable – not as much grain as I expected.
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Bee-autiful! Amazing that you were able to get so close.
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Thanks Morgaine, I have to admit cropping these photos, but I was pretty close. I’m allergic to the European bees, I don’t want to find out if I’m allergic to these ones – though I’m not sure if they sting.
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Beautiful photos, Tone!!
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Thanks John, tried something a little different with the 60mm lens, always like to experiment 🙂
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Great pics, especially the header.
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Thanks Anneli, it is a heavily cropped version of the last photo. I’ve recently created a “header” template in Photoshop with grids, so I now know what will show in the heading on different devices and the “next” and “previous” links at the end of my posts for the theme I use 😀
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I thought it might be from that last photo. Nice.
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very nice images. Bee Careful Beeing that close
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Fantastic macro photography, such clear images.
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Thanks Izzy – I just snuck a look at your “about” page 😉 I’m finding it helps when there’s no wind for macro shots, and moving back a bit for moving things like a bee is best. You might say the bees wings are bees knees 😉
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Fabulous details!
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Thanks Donna, it surprised me how well the wings came up 😀
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WOW!👏👏
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Thanks Cindy 😀
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Pleasure!🌷
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