More desert spring

Cornflake

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denisegoldberg

These are all wonderful.
Of the three shots my favorites is the last one. The combination of a beautiful flower and the cactus thorns really pulls me in.

Cornflake

Thanks, Denise. I'm accustomed to cactus flowers but I never get tired of them.

Juano

@denisegoldberg said:
These are all wonderful.
Of the three shots my favorites is the last one. The combination of a beautiful flower and the cactus thorns really pulls me in.

I would agree. I like the bee one too, I like animals and insects in action.

black mamba

Another good set, Don. You guys out in the desert areas have some plants with the deadliest array of thorns I've ever seen.

Cornflake

Cristobal, Tom, thanks very much. Tom, we learn to be careful around thorns. I've spent a lot of time out in the desert and I've been pricked by thorns maybe three times.

Stumblebum

First one is superb!

Cornflake

Thanks, Taz. The flower was tall enough that I couldn't use a tripod and getting the focus right while shooting hand-held was a bear. I got a lot of "almost but not quite" shots.

willard3

I like no 2 best.

Cornflake

Willard, thanks.

JTP22

Love them, especially number 2

Joel

Cornflake

Thanks, Joel. Photographing bees in flight is kind of addictive.

David_S85

Love those last two.

Cornflake

Thanks, David. It's interesting to see the different preferences.

El Gato

Don...

Wonderful set!

Your patience and skill paid off...#1 is excellent, certainly destined for a frame. Numbers 2 and 3, equally fine.

Great captures and always interesting subjects.

Thanks for sharing a bit of desert flora and fauna that many of us never get to see!

Cornflake

Thanks, Gato. Sometimes I forget that people in other places don't see these things very often.