Impaled DEAD bee, LIVE worms
by HarveyG

Comment by skewsme:
Nice macro! Interesting and gruesome shot.

Impaled DEAD bee, LIVE worms
by HarveyG

Comment by JulietNN:
Here is a little more of what i was talking about, working with a smaller JPG hurts, but you can get teh general ideas as to what i mean with selective colours and hue and saturation.



I should also add, it is very grainy from doing a close crop and over processed some what, but it is a general idea

Message edited by author 2009-08-08 12:43:20.

Impaled DEAD bee, LIVE worms
by HarveyG

Comment by HarveyG:
Wow, I'm stoked, the "bug" has bitten. Thx all who voted (except the evil masked "1" voter), and those who commented, Katherine, Jason (yes you are correct, I have two types of Shrike on my plot (Fiscal and Crimson Breasted Shrike)) but I've only seen them impale Lizards so it never dawned on me, and how the Shrike avoids those spikes is anyone's guess!, Juliet for advice on colours, will try harder next time in PS but I am still "old school" and find Post Processing cheating!, Dan thx for encouragement I was rather lucky!

Impaled DEAD bee, LIVE worms
by HarveyG

Comment by danculwell:
Hey Harvey. Great shot, and a great score. Good job on your first challenge. What an intersting find.

Impaled DEAD bee, LIVE worms
by HarveyG

Comment by JulietNN:
HI from the CC Club!

Well, these little worms look like they are Cinnabar moth Caterpillars!

Well, for your first ever challenge you did amazingly well! You read the rules and used crop and unsharp, there is also a lot more that you can do in in Basic.

You captured a great shot that was just right for this challenge. In post processing, a couple of thing you could play with is, contrast, saturations, selective colours.

Prickly pear have very flat oval shaped pads and can range from dark green to a yellow green colour. A little selective colour may have brought out some more green to really offset the insects on here.

Overall you did a great job, well done

Impaled DEAD bee, LIVE worms
by HarveyG

Comment by 777STAN:
"Where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched..."

Impaled DEAD bee, LIVE worms
by HarveyG

Comment by Jason_Cross:
SWEET! You have a shrike photo too! I have been hoping to find another one of these someday to get a photo of. Very cool.

Impaled DEAD bee, LIVE worms
by HarveyG

Comment by kmusser:
Unique photo. I thought those were snakes at first. Amazing how the bee impaled itself. It sure does illustrate life and death though.