Thursday, September 4, 2008

Bee-ing patient



Recently I shot the picture of a bumblebee landing on a sunflower at a home in Denton. The thing is it took me at least an hour waiting for yellow and black stripped bug to land on that specific flower.

Several things I had to get to make the picture work.
1) The bumblebee had to be in the picture and it had to be in the right spot of the frame.
2) The light had to hit the bee and flower just right.
3) The wind had to stop blowing so the sunflower would stop moving messing up my focus.

The best comment I received was that the photo looked like a painting. This is probably due to the blueish/cyan background and that the bumblebee isn't sharp but instead shows the bug in motion.

Better lucky, than good.

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