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Sunbathing Bee
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Challenge: Fauna (Classic Editing)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 5000
Location: New Hope, Pennsylvania, USA
Date: Apr 20, 2003
Aperture: 6.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/241 sec
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Apr 16, 2003

 Living in the city, you don't often get to observe nature. Fortunately I got to go home for the weekend and I spent a while trying to find some animals. I came across what I believed was the first of the bees. It is still a little early in the spring and the weather we've been having recently has been shockingly cold so I didn't even expect to find any bees. I thought the cold would've shocked them all back into hibernation or something. Fortunately I found a few that liked perching on this plant we had outside our house. I don't know if pollen exists on the leaves, and the flowers hadn't bloomed yet, but for some reason the bees liked to perch there. It was a little tough getting close to them, but I setup my tripod and waited for a good while. I finally caught a few and this one was very clear and had a lot of detail. (No alterations done to the photograph. The dark background is due to the depth of field and darkness under the shade of the leaves. Nothing was cloned out. There were some other leaves cropped out though, actually it was the flower part just below the one leaf's stem on the bottom right.)

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/29/2003 02:07:03 PM
Excellent focus, very scary subject. The black background seems a little unnatural to me, and that kinda bugs me, but it is an excellent macro shot nonetheless.
 04/28/2003 08:34:26 PM
This is a pretty good shot of the bee. I'm not wild about the pic as a whole. The leaves could've been darker and I think it would've really enhanced the bee. I believe it would've provided a little more contrast and darkened the bright spot at the very bottom of the leaf on which the bee rests.
 04/27/2003 02:55:33 PM
wow! great detail and colour on both the leaf and the bee. :) I like the nice dark background too.
 04/25/2003 01:40:02 PM
nice clarity
 04/25/2003 09:58:13 AM
good job
 04/24/2003 06:15:56 PM
Bee? Looks like a wasp to me. Good photo though.
 04/24/2003 02:10:46 PM
This is a wasp!
 04/24/2003 01:39:57 PM
A bee? I'd have thought wasp, but whtever. Good shooting, fabulous detail and light, though I'd say just a touch over-exposed - the stem of the leaf, for example.
 04/24/2003 12:33:42 PM
That's a wasp, I think, but still a nice macro.
 04/24/2003 08:48:57 AM
Depth of field seems to be slightly out of place. The wasp's forward attena is out of focus but part of the leaf behind the wasp is in focus. Stepping back just a step (baby step) would probably have helped here.
 04/24/2003 05:04:30 AM
That's a wasp isn't it?
 04/24/2003 03:59:58 AM
It's actually a wasp :)
 04/23/2003 09:14:37 PM
I like this one a lot. Sharp focus and good take
 04/23/2003 06:53:12 AM
Wasp ? Hornet?
 04/23/2003 02:47:00 AM
The lighting, the detail, the composition. Everything is excellent, well done!
 04/23/2003 01:46:29 AM
that doesn't look like a bee to me though it is a nice pic
 04/23/2003 01:00:38 AM
A lot of glare


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