Simply Beeing

Upon returning home from a nice, cool morning walk, we were surveying our front garden with some satisfaction because it happens to be looking pretty good. There is abundant echinacea, some daisies, some yellow coneflowers, and more. There are also various pots here and there, and they are looking grand.

We spotted a bee buzzing, so when Sue grabbed her phone, I realized that my camera was just inside the house near the door with macro lens already attached, so I made a bee-line for it.

The bee had moved, but we did find it again in another section of echinacea. We both took photos. I haven't seen Sue's yet, but these two of mine are satisfactory. They are not super close, but I can't get too close with my macro lens. Still, the bee in the photos is as large as it is in reality, so that's not bad.

Overnight, I began to wonder if I could catch a bee in flight. I would pre-focus the camera and bee ready if they either alighted or disembarked. Yeah, that didn't work although I did capture a few blurs. Even at 1250 seconds, whatever photos I got, and there were precious few, were extremely blurry. Some of the blur could have been due to a very narrow depth of field of a macro lens, but really, they bee fast fast fast.

Since we are all gathered together, I will append two non-flight photos from that second shoot: the first because there are two bees for the price of one, the second because that little cutie appears to be looking right at the camera.