On 6/19/05, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was trimming the shrubbery <dramatic crescendo> in the garden this > afternoon when I noticed some bees enjoying our flowers. I seized the > opportunity to cease work and shoot some photos, under the pretense of > getting material for the nature Guides project I'm working on (I will, > in fact, use the shots for this purpose, but still...) > Here's my pick of the afternoon. The composition isn't great, but these > little buggers move about so much it's tough enough to get one in focus > and in frame at all! > http://www.robertstech.com/temp/eric.jpg > ist-D, ISO 800, FA*80/200/2.8 with 1.7x AF teleconverter > 1/400th sec @ f/14 >
Shrubbery?!? (to be said in a high-pitched scream) I really like the photo, Mark. The bokeh is sublime. Foreground is nicely sharp, and you got a bee in there to boot! Did you name him Eric? Eric the Bee? I was out back taking pix of some sort of blossom on one of my housemate's trees, and I tried to get a bee flitting about the blossoms, but I don't know how successful I was. I may have only managed to get part of the bee in the frame, so I would have to call mine Eric the Half a Bee. <g> cheers, frank PS: "A one... two-- A one... two... three... four... Half a bee, philosophically, Must, ipso facto, half not be. But half the bee has got to be Vis a vis, its entity. D'you see? But can a bee be said to be Or not to be an entire bee When half the bee is not a bee Due to some ancient injury?" -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
