Busy Bee's

In the Apricot Tree. You can see the pollen on this guys legs.

and the violets to name just a few places. This made me giggle he was very 'pollen drunk' and upside down for more.

Tuesday - Bee's...

 . . . a Black Bird and a Camellia.

Some nice detail captured in the Bee pics from a further distance and that beautiful macro action removes distraction from the background. Quick enough to capture flight.

Nothing really special here most of these blooms face the fence, hence the odd colouring behind.

This black bird is reach out and touch it real! Very Crisp image with good depth. It was fossicking fallen Olives like they were moving, then running away with its treasure and swallowing them whole.

Experimenting

I am really very lucky to have been loaned a DSLR camera by an exceptionally thoughtful, person to have a play with for a couple of days.

Its a canon 400D using a 75-300 lens.

So for the next few days I'll just share my observations and experiments with this camera.

These were taken on Monday, the first Day I had it, it was drizzly and grey. My first observation is using this camera has really absolutely minimised editing post taking the photos, the backgrounds in macro are already totally appropriate and the colours are so much more accurate to real life.

When I saw the camera could capture a rose and subdue the background like this ...

I started to experiment with placement of subject to get a more 'arty' photo.

 Then I just started to see things differently and look for opportunities like this.

I'll schedule a couple more posts with less words based on the photos I took on Monday. Then follow on with additional days. :)

Blue Banded Bee

I have seen these Bee's around here before but never managed to get a pic. The way they fly is different to regular Bee's and the way they behave on plants also different. There is usually just one amongst the common bee's here and the stripes were always identified by me as white not Blue. Yesterday I saw this one clearly as blue and was able to get a good enough photo to establish its identity.

Its a native Blue banded bee.

From what I read in my identity investigation, this is a male clearly displaying 5 Blue bands.

I can sing a rainbow.

Red 

And Yellow

and Pink

and Green.

Purple

and Orange

and Blue

 ♪ I can sing a rainbow , sing a rainbow , sing a rainbow too. ♫ 

Unusual

A Bee, Feeding on a fallen Sugar plum, I have never seen a Bee at fruit like this before.

Busy Bee's