The best bee photos yet.

I've learned a few things about taking pictures of bees.  First of all and foremost, you need luck.  A good camera comes next, and knowing the right settings to use helps enormously of course. But bees move too fast to be able to think about framing a good shot.  I have found that all I can do is get in there close to the insect and click away like mad. Good thing the camera is digital because I delete much of what I take. 

I've learned a little about when to use the flash and when not to.  You'll see some evidence of not choosing correctly in some of the photos.  

The pictures in this post are the best ones, and some of the more recent ones that I've taken. So, take a look. I hope you enjoy them.

You can just see its her wings as a blur at about 11 and 1.   'Incoming!'

 Examples of too much light. 

This is more like it.

Above and below were taken at 1/800 second.  They astound me. 

 

All of this next batch could have used some additional light, but I was afraid to take the time to raise my flash and push the buttons to set it. I would have missed most of these shots. The bee didn't stay around very long.  And it turned out that there was just enough light after all.  

There is no artificial light here nor did I edit color into these flowers.  Normally, I'd stride past these flowers with hardly a glance, but look and marvel at what is really there, if you bother to, and are able to, look closely enough. 

I like on this one how the jagged leaf on the left and the jagged leg of the bee seems to mirror each other.  

Look at all those sections of its wing.  

That's all, the bee has left the flower....     -djf