This gallery contains 3 photos. Honey(bee), meet Heather. First day of spring and the industrious bees are already hard at their task of pollinating flowers. Doesn’t this honeybee resemble a mini helicopter in flight?
Photographed this afternoon in the backyard. These shots were not taken in macro mode (the bees move too fast for the camera to focus), but from about 3-5 inches away in Shutter Priority mode.
And the token upside down pose, when the flower calls for it. Just like a chickadee or nuthatch. 🙂
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Those are truly fantastic! Great job 🙂
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thanks, Kim! 🙂
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Great pictures, give me hope for spring!
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thanks Kimberly, and you’re welcome! 🙂
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beautiful shot.
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thanks, Ruth 🙂
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Excellent macro photography!
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thank you, Chris … but no macro mode was actually invoked. I just got really really close to the honeybee! 🙂
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wow! 🙂
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I guess I could have gotten stung … but I have held a giant scorpion, tarantula, and a couple of boa constrictors and lived to tell the tale. 🙂
I did take a bye on the black mamba though. silly me! 🙂
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Yes, well, I can see why you might have some trepidations about one of those… a bite would kill you so fast you wouldn’t have time to put away your camera. 😀
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actually I should have gone and held it. I trusted the snake charmer on stage, after all, when I held the 25-foot python. 🙂
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I dunno…. the risk to benefit equation doesn’t seem to balance too well, for my taste, anyway. 😀
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not to worry! I had travel insurance, and I was just fifteen. the young (and foolish) heal fast. 🙂
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hahahahaahahahaa…. with pit vipers and mambas, there’s no time for healing, and insurance only helps your survivors 😀
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death wishes aside 🙂 … actually, in the case of the black mamba, I believe the snake charmer would not have asked for volunteers from the audience had it not been safe. my younger cousin actually did go up and pose with it, and she’s now a married mother of three. 🙂
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I remember this guy Harry who was a bear trainer up in the Great Smokey Mountains. Nice feller. I knew him from the Gatlinburg gym.
He had been working with bears (black bears, mostly) for something like 30 years before a 6 foot bear attacked him one day when he was feeding it. Ate his face off, if I recall correctly.
As far as I’m concerned, nobody’s an expert when it comes to wild animals.
They’re always wild, no matter how tame they may seem or act.
I don’t think Harry is working with bears anymore.
Happy thoughts, huh? 😀
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yikes! oh yes, I have never forgotten that even so-called domesticated animals (like dogs and cats) are still animals. 🙂
not to worry — I won’t be wrestling crocodiles. 🙂
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Thank heaven for THAT !!!! 😀
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and you will never see me approach a lion, elephant, tiger, etc. 🙂
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How about a honey-badger?
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they’re pretty nasty. and they don’t care. 🙂
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😀
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Wonderful! And a little sad, too, to think these shots might one day be treasures as the bees dwindle away.
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gosh, I hope not. 😦
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I love these photos!! We are about to get 2 honey bee colonies and hives. The queens are from Russia and there is hope that this genetic strain will be resilient and help bring back the bees that are dying off in North America.
We are so excited!!!
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Thanks! That’s great to hear! Bees are so important to and for us!
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