Flowers and Bees

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JAS

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In small segments, I am cleaning up old files, working to delete the junk and bad shotsand downsize the 64,000 shot catalog to a stronger collection of the best and the most memorable shots. Along the way I am also finding good stuff that I forgot about. These shots are from a trip to the New York Botanical Gardens in 2017. We went to see the Chihuly Glass Exhibit, which was great, and I got to spend a lot of time shooting the flowers and associated bees.
All shots with Nikon D750. Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6. Square shots are 16mp and others 20mp crop. First shot LrC and PS, others LrC only. I did update the processing given the major changes in Adobe since 2017.

Bee Buddies

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Bee alone

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Flower Group

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Beautiful. One of my favourite animals is the bumble bee -- how they manage to be adorable and an insect at the same time is beyond me :) When I'm watering my balcony garden they are always bouncing off my head (and body) with a small 'bonk' noise LOL
 
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I too am fascinated with bees and photographing them, preferably with longer lenses when I can.(ha-ha)
When I get my new 100-400Z, it will focus to 3.22ft/98cm at 400mm so that will be a great closeup lens for flowers and insects!
 
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Dahlias like those here are really a good for shooting bees. They will walk around the flower for quite some while, sometimes getting smeared into pollen. So you set the camera on a tripod, focus on a ripe flower and wait a short while.
Think these are fine examples.
 
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Niels.hr.Hansen said:
Dahlias like those here are really a good for shooting bees. They will walk around the flower for quite some while, sometimes getting smeared into pollen. So you set the camera on a tripod, focus on a ripe flower and wait a short while.
Think these are fine examples.
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The Dahlia garden that year was quite large and gorgeous. I have many other shots from that visit. Thank you for your comment.
 
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