Looks like he is multi-tasking.

Keeping an eye on you, as well as, attending to gathering some nectar.


Quite like the seemingly slightly turned head and posturing captured.

The DOF employed has reduced (in a good good way) your image here to that of the 'attitude' of the bee.. as opposed to just another shot of a bee doing what bees do.

Composition is strong.


Nice one.

Thanks for that. I thought I could just slip back into shooting a 1X lens like putting on a pair of shoes. Nope.

The new lens is a crown jewel, but there are metering issues that need to be finagled far more than the microscope-like MP-E 65, believe it or not.

I've also ordered a Canon 67 Macrolite Adapter which will let me use the ring flash. I really like the 'pop' that strobe gives my pictures.

For anyone else thinking about buying a ring flash, check out the link below. On paper, this new one looks really solid and it's cheaper than Canon's. The design of the control unit for the Canon MR-14EX ring flash leaves a lot to be desired, especially at their price point.

http://www.nissindigital.com/mf18.html

I like this too... the simplicity of it is good, but it's the simplicity of the background as much as anything... no distracting impression of the horizon, or a black bush lurking. :-)