Flight of the Bumblebee
May 14, 2022 07:26:22 #
Apologies to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; for title theft. Unless, it is a carpenter bee, in which case, no apology necessary, just thanks for all the great music. 
Nikon D500, 300mm f/4, tc 1.4 iii
Group autofocus, 1/3200 and 1/4000 sec.
The red background is the deck floor, the green is grass. The deck floor needs a paint job, so I'm happy for the bokeh.
Comments and critiques welcome.
Nikon D500, 300mm f/4, tc 1.4 iii
Group autofocus, 1/3200 and 1/4000 sec.
The red background is the deck floor, the green is grass. The deck floor needs a paint job, so I'm happy for the bokeh.
Comments and critiques welcome.
May 14, 2022 07:46:11 #
May 14, 2022 07:47:09 #
srsincary wrote:
Apologies to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; for title theft. Unless, it is a carpenter bee, in which case, no apology necessary, just thanks for all the great music.
Nikon D500, 300mm f/4, tc 1.4 iii
Group autofocus, 1/3200 and 1/4000 sec.
The red background is the deck floor, the green is grass. The deck floor needs a paint job, so I'm happy for the bokeh.
Comments and critiques welcome.
Nikon D500, 300mm f/4, tc 1.4 iii
Group autofocus, 1/3200 and 1/4000 sec.
The red background is the deck floor, the green is grass. The deck floor needs a paint job, so I'm happy for the bokeh.
Comments and critiques welcome.
These shots are absolutely incredible. That's my comment.
Now, for my "critique" - not enough images. Please post more!! 😀
May 14, 2022 07:48:58 #
May 14, 2022 07:54:45 #
These are spectacular! You could say they are beeutiful! I, like many, was first intrigued by classical music as a kid by hearing music like "Flight of the Bumblebee", "Peter and the Wolf", etc. And a field trip to "The Nutcracker". A big thank you to my (public) schools for that!
For your next assignment you are required to photograph the cuckoo bird (which may require travel to Europe), as captured in music in many pieces throughout musical history - one of my favorites being from 1735 - in Daquin's "Le Coucou" in E minor. This was played on a harpsichord, which often was a very dull instrument due to the inability to vary the volume of any given note. He made up for that in this frenetic piece of music which employed the "cuckoo" call of the famous bird. Here played by Trevor Pinnock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1cq8034cr8
Actually, as I type this I am listening to the many-talented Katia Buniatishvili play the Hungarian Rhapsody #2 with probably as much freneticism as Liszt would have played it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqtz6a8ikGg
For your next assignment you are required to photograph the cuckoo bird (which may require travel to Europe), as captured in music in many pieces throughout musical history - one of my favorites being from 1735 - in Daquin's "Le Coucou" in E minor. This was played on a harpsichord, which often was a very dull instrument due to the inability to vary the volume of any given note. He made up for that in this frenetic piece of music which employed the "cuckoo" call of the famous bird. Here played by Trevor Pinnock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1cq8034cr8
Actually, as I type this I am listening to the many-talented Katia Buniatishvili play the Hungarian Rhapsody #2 with probably as much freneticism as Liszt would have played it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqtz6a8ikGg
May 14, 2022 07:56:13 #
Really nice work on these captures of this bee in flight. I have not had much success in trying to do this.
Will
Will
May 14, 2022 08:00:08 #
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May 14, 2022 08:22:03 #
Wow! Ronnie! Really outstanding! The D500 does amazing auto focus things too.
May 14, 2022 08:52:21 #
May 14, 2022 09:57:56 #
OutBack wrote:
Well I like; it's hard to get them critters to pose.
Thank you, Outback. They pose well on flowers. Less predictable when flying.
May 14, 2022 10:01:17 #
MadMikeOne wrote:
These shots are absolutely incredible. That's my comment.
Now, for my "critique" - not enough images. Please post more!! 😀
Now, for my "critique" - not enough images. Please post more!! 😀
Thank you very much, MadMikeOne. I have a few more, but had to delete many, many others that were out-of-focus. Thank goodness for digital photography!
I am going to try other flying critters next. Good challenges.
May 14, 2022 10:01:52 #
SkyKing wrote:
…excellent work here…!
Thank you, SkyKing for the feedback.
May 14, 2022 10:08:26 #
sb wrote:
These are spectacular! You could say they are bee... (show quote)
Thank you very much, Steve, for the feedback, and interesting musical references. I am not familiar with the composer, Daquin, nor the pianist Katia B. I will have to check out her Hungarian Rhapsody. As to the harpsichord, maestro Bach did wonders with it. But I do prefer the piano much more.
On cuckoos, they were very common in the part of India were I grew up. I love their singing voice.
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