Small bee

Lord Vetinari

Bees seem to be getting smaller at the moment. Andrena bicolour #3, lasioglossum #1,2,5 and halictus sp #4. I think. The Halictus bee was about 6mm body length

Brian V.

GOLDENORFE

great series Brian, all of them brilliant.
must say not many bees around here, loads of bumbles mainly.
phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

Skippy

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Bees seem to be getting smaller at the moment. Andrena bicolour #3, lasioglossum #1,2,5 and halictus sp #4. I think. The Halictus bee was about 6mm body length

Brian V.

Beautiful series Brian, I love the #4 little fella
Winter is well and truly here now, the winds are terrible.
I'm just glad we're getting rain, because we really need it.
I hope my bulbs don't die from the weird weather we have been having.

They actually came up several inches when they shouldn't have.
Spring is a long way off, but the plants look half way headed towards flowering so I hope the cold weather doesn't kill them off.

Thanks for sharing Brian ... Skippy
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Lord Vetinari

Thanks Phil and Skippy for the comments
Brian V.

carebearyogi

How do you get the images so shapen? Do you use any photoshop filters ?

Lord Vetinari

carebearyogi wrote:

How do you get the images so shapen? Do you use any photoshop filters ?

Hi I shoot RAW so I do use USM in PS to sharpen the images a bit. The main thing though is I shoot at fairly open apertures to avoid diffraction softening of the images in the first place.

Brian V.