Come Fly With Me by NightGallery
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Description
Carpenter Bee:
Went to a local marsh preserve last weekend. On my way out spotted this fella hovering around some plants. The sun was going down and I had to use my cheap Zoom lens for the shots.
Unfortunately, to get a good shutter speed I had to go to 800 ISO. Which made a lot of noise on these shots. I did all I could to clean it up.
Hope to head back there and see him again with a bit more light to get some cleaner shots.
An interesting note, as I watched this bee for about 20 mins. I began to notice it had a pattern it would fly and hover in.
Usually coming back to the same spot to hover over and over. Making focusing a bit easier since I was using manual focus.
So cute.
Thanks for looking.
Bruce

Comments (26)
I dont even understand my camera lol but what ever you did turned out marvelous this is awessom e great capture!!!
Truly awesome capture!!!
Most wonderful shot and the noise does not bother at all!
Excellent shot, cheap lens or not!!
sweet!!
Outstanding, I couldn't take a shot like this ever.
WOW!!!!! Unbelievable capture. You're the man.
Fantastic capture!!!
soooooo fantastic shot!!!!!!!!!!
That is a pretty amazing shot.
Excellent split second timing and shot..!!
Wow, fantastic work.
SO WONDERFUL! and now we need to find out why the pattern..nature rarely does anything for nothing.
Wow! This is amazing work!
Wonderful image, and isn't it amazing that they can hover at all when you look at the body size in relation to wing size. Great shot!
How in the world did you get this amazing shot? Awesome!
EXCELLENT!
Excellent capture. Your efforts paid off well. Great timing and great postwork. Thanks for sharing. Lee
amazing capture Bruce
Fantastic shot!
Excellent shot!
Thought it a moth at first. Great capture!
Awesome again!
Can i hop aboard? Stunning macro my friend.
SIMPLY FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!!
AMAZING. This is such great!