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Bumble bee contortions

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Posted by David Taylor on May 14, 2007 at 3:51 PM
Bumble bee contortions
Had just got home from my first day back at work since my heart attack, so the first thing I did was to go into the garden for something to photograph. I wasn't disappointed, the bee was biting into the spur of sepal of a seedling columbine, to get at the
nectar I presume.

Sigma SD14
Sigma 50mm macro lens
F3.5
1/60s
ISO100
P setting
Hand held
Natural light
RAW adjustment in SPP3
Resized and cropped in PS Elements 4
Slight USM

:toast: :toast:
Posted by Andy Astbury on May 14, 2007 at 3:58 PM
That's a lot of pollen on its legs David - nice shot :toast: :toast:

Take it easy :wink: :wink: :wavey:
Posted by John Chapman on May 15, 2007 at 9:44 AM
Great capture David. :toast:
John
Aberdeen
Posted by David Kjaer on May 15, 2007 at 1:31 PM
Very colourful and the even lighting makes for a very nice image!

David :toast:
Posted by Justin on May 15, 2007 at 1:46 PM
I particularly enjoy colourful images,so a thumbs up from me. Really like the viewpoint too.:toast:
Posted by Clive_S on May 16, 2007 at 5:41 AM
Great behavioral shot, they do this on flowers when their 'tongues' are too short to reach the nectar. Well found and captured! :toast: