It gets tough when you are grown up

[pjflan7]

When you are growing up, all is well and things are tight, manicured and beautiful



And then you get visitors......for the bee, you first start by looking around, poking your head here and there......can't hide your deeds!



For the bee, you go to town frantically devouring the surface and look at you! You are going to have to have a bath by momma bee. If you are the flower, you're feeling quite violated



The bee now checks itself to see if its bounty is ready to for the long flight back to the hive.....as for the flower....well some allergy sufferers would say that it served it right. Bees are our friends....taking the pollen away from our sensitive noses to their hive to make honey for our watering mouths...sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

[leonaashlee]

Amen to that. Very clear and focused shots...I don't think I've ever seen a bee that close up because I'm usually running in the other direction. Nice work.

[shmelly]

Great set of photos Patrick, they are all so clear and I like the red flower I don't know why it just looks different to what we are used to seeing.

[Hayward Taylor]

beautiful images - great narration .. I call the bees in my garden "The Pollinators" .. nice closeups

[Nicole]

I just love that first shot. The colours are so vibrant!

[mstark70]

Such fantastic detail. He is just covered with yummy pollen. Fabulous job. The flower is beautiful as well.

[pjflan7]

Originally Posted by leonaashlee

Amen to that. Very clear and focused shots...I don't think I've ever seen a bee that close up because I'm usually running in the other direction. Nice work.

friends, they are friends

Originally Posted by shmelly

Great set of photos Patrick, they are all so clear and I like the red flower I don't know why it just looks different to what we are used to seeing.

I guess it is because the surface is so rough on the close up?

Originally Posted by Hayward Taylor

beautiful images - great narration .. I call the bees in my garden "The Pollinators" .. nice closeups

Sounds like a good name to me...for leona it would be "the terminators"

Originally Posted by Nicole

I just love that first shot. The colours are so vibrant!

Thanks Nicole

Originally Posted by mstark70

Such fantastic detail. He is just covered with yummy pollen. Fabulous job. The flower is beautiful as well.

Thanks Michelle, glad you liked them

[harsh.kataruka]

Wow!!! that is some tight macro shots Patrick...
and the storytelling was something similar to the BEE MOVIE!! :-)

As Hayward said - The Pollinators!! However, i normally dont stand in one place long enough to admire them mostly u'll find me doubling back in the other direction to the bee!!!

[jakethepig]

Patrick, these captures are amazing. Is there no limits to that lens. That bee is so vivid and the detail is stunning in all of them. Just beautiful mate. Nature at its very best.

Dave

[flavio]

Shalom Patrick,

This set is a feast for the eyes!
Great job!
Keep them coming, we shall be waiting.