Note to self—when exploring crop fields, even if it’s at the Experimental Farm just a few minutes’ walk from home, do not wear shorts and sandals. Especially if you notice hundreds of bees gathering pollen.
No, I didn’t get stung, lucky me. My bare legs did feel itchy, but I suspect it was just psychological.
A little while ago, I noticed a new patch of sunflowers at the Experimental Farm. I went there on Saturday, my camera and macro lens slung across my shoulders. The only issue with the macro lens is that it’s a prime lens. It doesn’t zoom, it is set to a single focal length (85 mm for that one). So I had to get really close to the bees to get a good shot, and some didn’t look too happy about it. Oh, and bees don’t really understand instructions such as “stay put,” “don’t move” and “a little on the right please.”
After the sunflowers, I went to explore the wheat fields. “Sundown in the Paris of the prairies, Wheat Kings have all their treasures buried” the Tragically Hip sang. Guess we won’t run out of breakfast cereals in this country!
Salut Zhu,
Beautiful colors and forms!! 🙂
I can relate with photographing bees. I did that twice. You need lots of time. They come & go, start & stop!!
I know why you were lucky by not getting stung; you were not afraid.
They felt that you were cool and OK. I am sure that they feel fear.
Bises.
I was a bit scared but I figured it’s just bees, not some deadly Australian stinger or spiders 😆
I have to say I am very much impressed by the precision of your micro-shots! It’s like a totally new world in a totally new dimension!
By the way, speaking of bees, I have a frustrated relationship with them right now. For some reason, ever since I started wearing this new cologne called “L’Eau Par Kenzo”, bees have been following me. And I cannot think of any other correlation aside from the fact that I changed colognes recently. 🙁
That’s strange! I haven’t had perfume in a while (I did back in France but somehow lost the taste for it in Canada) and I can’t remember whether insects “liked” it. I guess it’s like mosquitoes who “like” some people better than others!
The photos are *beautiful*!
Thank you!
oohh… I love your pictures, they’re so pretty! Specially the one called “unbloomed”… seriously, WOW.
btw. will you put that one on your list of “buy pictures”? 🙂
Thank you! I’m glad you liked them. I’ll add the ‘unbloomed” to the shop, but if you are interested you can always order any picture in my Flickr stream, not only these on display in the Shop 😉
Beautiful photos!
I know about the bees… I’ve been on a field that was literally “buzzing” and I was just in a t-shirt and shorts. I was tensed as if a lion was in hiding somewhere.
I like the 4th pic. Too bad I haven’t got money to buy a macro lens 🙁
Mine wasn’t too expensive, I bought it second hand 😉
Hi,
Could you tell me what sought of macro lense you r using. I just bought a D7000 with a kit lense of 18mm-105mm. Was thinkng to buy a prime potrait lense 50mm f1.8 or f1.4.
The macro lens I use is a second-hand NIKKOR 85mm f/3.5G ED VR. I love it and it’s a great portrait lens too.
I love taking pictures of bees but of a hundred there are only a few good pictures because they move so fast!
I know what you mean! It’s like fireworks 😆