Crocus and the Dronefly / Hoverfly

Paul Iddon

Edit: Was titles as a dronefly, but it's a honey bee...

The warm sunshine today has brought out droves of honey bees into the early flowering crocus beds of one of our local parks. Trust me, working at ground level is hard enough and despite the struggle, I got the "nearly" shot with this one. The bee is not quite 100% in focus, but seeing as I was working at 3 inches off the ground with the camera on a bean bag, I don't think it came out too badly.


C&C as always appreciated.



Exif:

Camera Maker: Canon
Camera Model: Canon EOS 550D
Lens: 105mm
Image Date: 2011-02-17 15:39:00 +0000
Focal Length: 105mm
Aperture: f/4.0
Exposure Time: 0.0020 s (1/500)
ISO equiv: 100
Exposure Bias: none
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)
White Balance: Auto
Flash Fired: No (enforced)
Orientation: Normal
Color Space: sRGB
GPS Coordinate: undefined, undefined
Photographer: Paul Iddon
Copyright: www.pauliddon.co.uk






Paul.

GOLDENORFE

great capture! well done

Paul Iddon

GOLDENORFE wrote: »

great capture! well done

Thank you Phil - I managed two in fact, lol..





Paul.

Lord Vetinari

Lovely BIF captures Paul - not seen any bees around here for quite a while.
Brian V.

Paul Iddon

Thank Brian, plenty around the crocus patch, but nowhere else...

Paul.

DeVil

Nicely taken Paul

Paul Iddon

DeVil wrote: »

Nicely taken Paul

Thank you! :ivar


Paul.