A Little Bee

[Mary Bull]

Here is a rendition by Dierk Haasis of a little bee below a mushroom hat, which I captured with my G2 on my front lawn yesterday morning.

Dierk, thanks a million for bringing out her beautiful form and colors, and just for doing the entire rendition for me.

Little Bee
http://opf.mediacentric.nl/albums/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=91&g2_serialNumber=2

And many thanks to Cem Usakligil. for hosting this gallery for me on his website.

Cem also made a couple of renditions of this image for me, which can be seen at the gallery link above, also.

I have the link set to display Dierk's rendition first. But to the left the other two photos in the gallery--the fine renditions by Cem--are listed. Just click on the titles to navigate.

Dierk, I love the warm colors and beautiful form which you brought out on the bee. That's why I chose to link to it first, in this post.

Mary



to reference larger version :)

[Daniel Harrison]

nice job at getting a shot of the bee, they are evasive critters :-)

[Mary Bull]

Thanks, Daniel. I'm afraid I don't deserve a lot of credit.

I couldn't get my eye down to the ground to see the G2's view screen or to see through its view finder.

I was shooting blind, in macro, trying for a side view of the mushroom's stem, gills, and cap.

I cleared away the grass and twigs down to the level of the soil on the south side of the mushroom--it's very small, between 3 and 4 inches in height.

Then I set the camera a little way away, and pushed the button. Did this a number of times from different distances and angles.

Had no idea the bee was there until I recognized it on my monitor screen.

Mary

[Joe Russo]

I couldn't get my eye down to the ground to see the G2's view screen or to see through its view finder.

I was shooting blind, in macro, trying for a side view of the mushroom's stem, gills, and cap.

Mary

Now that's what I call serendipity!

Wonderful image Mary. You may have found a specialty in macro!

[Mary Bull]

Big smile on my face as I read your comment, Joe.

I'm not an entomologist and I'm far from seasoned in the ways of my G2.

But I love the outdoors, and I love trying to catch what I see with the camera, successful or not.

And sometimes I get lucky.

I'm definitely lucky in the people who were willing to spend time rendering the image and hosting it. (Dierk and Cem.)

I would never have had the skills to bring out the little bee. I had the wrong settings on the camera--although I did have it on macro--and so work needed to be done in an image editor.

Which I'm not the most adept at either, as I demonstrate at OPF rather frequently.

But, I'm happy to be here!

Mary

[Mary Bull]

Here's the link to a beautiful rendition of my image of the little bee under the mushroom hat. I thought some of you who read here would like to see it, so I uploaded it to the gallery that Cem is hosting for me.

http://opf.mediacentric.nl/albums/main.php/v/Mary+Bull/Bee.jpg.html

Stuart cropped off part of the stem, as he told me in a PM, and then used Light Machine to shine a tiny spotlight on the bee.

Mary