Multitasking Bees

The pollen was clearly a big draw for this pair. I tried capturing them with my macro, with as much detail as possible, but mostly they were so covered in yellow pollen that this was the best I could do. Converted to b&w as the color ofthe flower, pollen, and background felt distracting. Wishing I'd had my lensbaby wtih me as I suspect this would have been better with just the bees in focus.

[Sheila]

Great focus and contrast.

[Richard Hickey]

Awesome macro.

[Shelley]

Very cool macro. This works really well in b/w.

[Agata]

That is gorgeous! What a great macro shot- love it in b&w

[Agata]

Fav!:-)

[Elizabeth]

Wow! Amazing detail and good choice to go with B & W!

[Debs Stott]

Interesting choice to go for b&w, but it works. I love it.

[aurorajane]

The detail is wonderful and I love the way the pollen is 'all' over them.

[☯ Sarah ☁]

Great capture, makes a wonderful B&W :)

[Kane Arlow]

Lovely focus and detail. It's so cute how the big one is giving the other a piggy back ride ;)

[Jan Rose]

Lovely capture I like the b/w.

[Issi Bannerman]

This is beautiful and I love the black and white.

[Amit]

Beautiful! Fav!

[Eve Pulsater]

Wow! Superb shot.

[Tony]

Great choice to bring out the detail in a B&W.

[Pam Knowler]

Nice one Taffy! Great choice of b& w to bring out the detail!

[Sue Wilde]

Fabulous

[Jennifer]

Great capture, love your choice of b&w

[Graeme Stevens]

Great shot, works well in B&W. Romance ain't dead after all...

[Penny Price]

Love the high key.

[Jessica]

Seriously, wow! So nice.

[Rachel]

Fabulous macro!

[Darlene]

Wow, what a great capture, Taffy. Love the detail and your use of B&W. FAV I had two very tiny spiders on my bathroom sink tonight in their webs but no way to take a macro of them. Had to get rid of them unfortunately.

[Joan Robillard]

No, see the can work and seek their pleasure at the same time. I thought for a moment you had a new bug.

[bruni]

It worked well in B&W. your right, in color all that pollen around them would be distracting.

[Kerri]

Beautiful

[Emiko]

Great macro shot! Love the detail!!

[Rachel]

Love it in b&w, great details. Fantastic shot

[Newbank Lass]

I do like this in black and white.

[Pyrrhula]

A beautiful capture and nice processing , Great framing too.

[Kristen]

lol great picture! :)

[mikeharris]

Great picture. B&W works really well.

[virtualbrownie]

Wonderful tones and composition

[Call me Joe]

Excellent, love the blk.border,looks like was done w/ a magic marker:)

[Marnie]

Great macro Taffy, I love those busy l'ill buzzers.

[Kathie]

Glad you toned this down to b/w...there may be children seeing this. Haha. Great shot. Oddly they don't look like bees.

[Sandy]

I love Kathie's comment. Ha, ha. Seriously though, it's an amazing macro.

[Elaine]

Really like how you have shot this one and it works in black and white. I always find yellow a difficult colour to get right.

[Elaine]

Super focus too, fav

[Bankmann]

I like this edit. I’m not an insect fan, but this is fav-able! :-)
I like that you thought of the Lensbaby as an alternative. There are two macro lens attachments available, actually; they fit into the optics and should also work with the Muse and the Spark.