Bees and Maple blossom

GattoGatto Registered Users Posts: 413 Major grins
edited February 13, 2015 in Holy Macro
The once a year event in my front yard :-)



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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2015
    #1 rocks!
    If it is sharp enough, I would try to see how tighter crops for flower+bee looks!
    Cheers!
  • GattoGatto Registered Users Posts: 413 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2015
    Stumblebum wrote: »
    #1 rocks!
    If it is sharp enough, I would try to see how tighter crops for flower+bee looks!
    Cheers!


    It would look like this ...


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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2015
    Love #1
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  • CavalierCavalier Registered Users Posts: 3,080 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2015
    The tighter crop on #1 really works. It's amazing that I didn't even notice the yellow "thingy" (pollen?) on the bee's side until the tighter crop. Both #1 and #2 are great in their own right.
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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2015
    Tight crop is totally fab! Distracting elements from background are gone, and nothing is lost in terms of sharpness and best aspects of the image are brought closer to us!
    LOVE IT!
  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2015
    Lovely colours.

    The bee has a pollen load in its pollen basket. The pollen is yellow, sealed with shiny propolis, the sticky exudate from "sticky buds", for which the maple scales leaves look strong candidates. "Propolis" means "in front of the city". The bees use it to make a kind of door mat at the hive entrance, where it forms an antiseptic barrier. It is also used to line comb cells and to fill small gaps in the comb. They may also use it to coat the body of a dead intruder, such as a mouse.

    Harold
  • GattoGatto Registered Users Posts: 413 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2015
    thank you all for the kind words and suggestions(Taz)

    e6filmuser wrote: »
    Lovely colours.

    The bee has a pollen load in its pollen basket. The pollen is yellow, sealed with shiny propolis, the sticky exudate from "sticky buds", for which the maple scales leaves look strong candidates. "Propolis" means "in front of the city". The bees use it to make a kind of door mat at the hive entrance, where it forms an antiseptic barrier. It is also used to line comb cells and to fill small gaps in the comb. They may also use it to coat the body of a dead intruder, such as a mouse.

    Harold

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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,315 moderator
    edited February 10, 2015
    Love the tighter crop. Good stuff.
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  • GOLDENORFEGOLDENORFE Super Moderators Posts: 4,747 moderator
    edited February 12, 2015
    Very good. Might be worth reducing contrast a bit on the cropped image.
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  • Tom FosterTom Foster Registered Users Posts: 291 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2015
    Great shots, love #1, even better with the tighter crop!
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