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Intense close-ups of bees 3
Mar 20, 2021 08:41:43 #
Bees have been cultured, or at least exploited, for honey and beeswax by humans for an estimated 9,000 years. Hieroglyphs on the Egyptian pyramids include images of beekeepers.
Denver Botanic Gardens by Paul Sager, on Flickr
Bees have so much to offer us if we only listen.
Chicago Bee
The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.
Chicago bee and flower
In cold climates, honey bees stop flying when the temperature drops below about 10 °C (50 °F) and crowd into the central area of the hive to form a "winter cluster". The worker bees huddle around the queen bee at the center of the cluster, shivering to keep the center between 27 °C (81 °F) at the start of winter (during the broodless period) and 34 °C (93 °F) once the queen resumes laying.
Chicago bee and flower
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. The first and final images use the EF 135mm f/2L USM as a close-up lens. The middle 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.
Desert bees
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.
Denver Botanic Gardens by Paul Sager, on Flickr
Bees have so much to offer us if we only listen.
Chicago Bee
The hum of bees is the voice of the garden.
Chicago bee and flower
In cold climates, honey bees stop flying when the temperature drops below about 10 °C (50 °F) and crowd into the central area of the hive to form a "winter cluster". The worker bees huddle around the queen bee at the center of the cluster, shivering to keep the center between 27 °C (81 °F) at the start of winter (during the broodless period) and 34 °C (93 °F) once the queen resumes laying.
Chicago bee and flower
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. The first and final images use the EF 135mm f/2L USM as a close-up lens. The middle 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.
Desert bees
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.
Mar 20, 2021 08:51:23 #
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Mar 20, 2021 15:56:14 #
Thank you John, Ken, Mike! We're still a few months away from bee season again here in Chicago.
Mar 21, 2021 22:15:18 #
Mar 22, 2021 08:26:05 #
Ourspolair wrote:
Beautiful captures and rendering, as ever. Thanks for sharing these excellent images.
Thank you George, glad you enjoyed!
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