Sorry folks, I know you've seen bees before, but I think my lovely wife got some great shots today:
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Nice photos, thanks for sharing! I always get a little choked up when I see a nice queen, and I don't know, is it only me or do the rest of ya'll think think those larvae with the wrinkly lil' butts are just cute as buttons?
Scott
Quote from: The Bix on April 28, 2010, 01:11:51 AM
Sorry folks, I know you've seen bees before, but I think my lovely wife got some great shots today:
It's always nice to see more bees.
I agree with you, your lovely wife got some great photos! Thanks for sharing.
We can never have enough photos Bix. Did your wife shoot that macro style or were the pics zoomed and blown up? Inquiring minds wanna know! :-D Actually since i've been in the bee hobby now 3 years, I've wanted to upgrade my digital camera from the lowly 3.2mp to one of the Cannon Rebel models. Just that my slush fund seems to always buy more bee supplies instead of other toys...
...DOUG
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Quote from: hardwood on April 28, 2010, 01:19:23 AM
Nice photos, thanks for sharing! I always get a little choked up when I see a nice queen, and I don't know, is it only me or do the rest of ya'll think think those larvae with the wrinkly lil' butts are just cute as buttons?
Scott
I was more choked up looking at the bees feeding the larvae and attending to them. I find it very touching.
Doug,
Yes, she was up close and personal with the macro setting, those were the raw photos. We have an older Fuji Finepix S7000. A couple of the hives we inspected were hotter than normal (might have been fighting with a skunk the night before). They didn't like the black camera and head butted it quite a bit.
--John
Those are excellent shots!