The western honey bee can be found on every continent except Antarctica. The species is believed to have originated in Africa or Asia, and it spread naturally through Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Humans are responsible for its considerable additional range, introducing European subspecies into North America (early 1600s), South America, Australia, New Zealand, and eastern Asia.

Bee on salvia by Paul Sager, on Flickr


Images in this post all were captured in RAW using an EOS 5DIII. The files were processed in Adobe Lightroom 6 with additional noise processing in Topaz DeNoise 6.

All images feature the EF 180mm f/3.5L Macro USM. Use the URL links that are the titles of each image for access to the EXIF details.

Coneflower visitor


The bee is domesticated but not tamed.

Bee on salvia


Bees make honey as stored food to feed the colony over winter when they are unable to forage.

Bee and flower


Unlike most other bee species, western honey bees have perennial colonies which persist year after year. Because of this high degree of sociality and permanence, western honey bee colonies can be considered superorganisms. This means that reproduction of the colony, rather than individual bees, is the biologically significant unit.

Wild bergamot and visitor


Humans have been collecting honey from western honey bees for thousands of years, with evidence in the form of rock art found in France and Spain, dating to around 7,000 BCE.

Bee on flower


These images are sized to fill your wide-screen display. Try using <F11> to maximize your browser window for the full effect. If the images overshoot your display, such as a laptop, just click on the image or the URL link and they'll resize to your screen from the host Flickr site. You can click a bit further into the image details on the Flickr page, if desired. EXIF data is available from the host Flickr pages as well. On the Flickr site, use your <L>key for Large and the <F11> for the full-screen.

Before making matters worse: STOP, make an explanation about where / what your situation is currently, and then make an informed plan of what you want to accomplish and decide how best to move forward.

Unless you're doing things outside LR, you should already have only unique NEF (RAW) files. There's a few things you could do to isolate the NEF if intermingled with all other file types, but I've found it easier to just import all the files and then sort by file type and remove what is unwanted.

You could also select all the NEF in your current catalog and export to a new catalog, making that new catalog your new master LRCAT.

So, there's lots and lots of things you could do with no new software nor lots of complex work. But, all the flexible options depend on what you are actually trying to accomplish.

SLS_8636D Traill&#x27;s Flycatcher by Sherwood Lincoln, on Flickr

Traill's Flycatcher in the rain. (From All About Birds)." Bird watchers that encounter a silent flycatcher often call it a Traill's Flycatcher because, without a peep, Alder and Willow Flycatchers are nearly impossible to separate in the field. In fact, before 1973, Alder and Willow Flycatchers were considered the same species. Thank you for taking your valuable time to view my photos. All photos are taken in southeastern Ct. most with a Canon 5DMIV or 7DMII and Canon 100 to 400II lens.