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Bee in a Beard Tongue
Bee in a Beard Tongue
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Collection: Plants
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Date: Jul 26, 2008
Aperture: 2.70
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/400
Galleries: Animals, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jul 31, 2008

Viewed: 541
Comments: 17
Favorites: 0

Honeybee inside the flower of a Beard Tongue (Penstamon sp.) native to Mexico, taken at the University of California Botanical Garden.

-Handheld, Shutter-Priority
-SuperMacro mode
-RGB Curve
-Resize
-Crop from right to square format
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 7 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 266kb

File: BeePenst_IMG_4295-DPCsq.jpg

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08/07/2008 12:39:17 AM
Another bee! Love the details on the 'beard' with the bee in the background - he really looks very busy!
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08/04/2008 02:55:23 PM
great angle on that bee!
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08/02/2008 08:46:59 AM
i love the furry flower and how the furry bee seems trapped in it - i wonder if a higher angle would have provided us a better peak...
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08/02/2008 03:44:50 AM
Interesting looking flower. And another bee :)
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08/01/2008 08:21:53 PM
I like how you cropped this. Very nice detail with the hairs of the flower. Great shot
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08/01/2008 04:49:39 PM
Gorgeous composition, I love the purple tint to the bee.
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08/01/2008 11:17:03 AM
Nice lighting and a beautiful purple!
Good focus and crop too! Lovely!
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08/01/2008 10:15:50 AM
Very nice, always great to capture an insect on a flower.
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08/01/2008 09:49:10 AM
Very, very well captured.
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08/01/2008 09:12:10 AM
My oh my, now I know why they call it Beard Tongue. Look at the magnificent stubble!! And you've certainly found an industrious bee too ... deeper, deeper, and you'll find that gold.
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08/01/2008 05:09:52 AM
Get closer, get closer! ...and have an escape route planned, heh.
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08/01/2008 03:51:31 AM
beautiful colors and detail
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08/01/2008 03:29:34 AM
It looks like the flower is just gonna eat him up. That's a cool flower, never seen one with hairs on it. The bee is also waving to you and saying, "What's up yo!"
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08/01/2008 12:30:03 AM
I am so pleased that you have come along on this journey with us.
I love the color purple, so you have won me already.
Great detail captured here, in the center of this flower.

That bee is sure hungry, and totally into this flower.

Thanks you for sharing this floral image with us.
Our journey has just begun.....
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07/31/2008 11:37:59 PM
The position of his little legs makes me think he was digging for something, like in the old cartoons when people were throwing things behind them while getting ever deeper into their closets. Really interesting flower, too, with the hairy bits inside. Fun image :-)
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07/31/2008 11:22:16 PM
Well, you know it's August in Australia already! The glowing warm color of the bee draws my eye right into this comp & I am amused at the little legs sticking up. "D If there is such a thing as a candid bee-shot, this would be it! [eta] of course you simply must keep on posting to this thread!

Message edited by author 2008-07-31 23:23:38.
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07/31/2008 10:26:07 PM
We seem to have a bee theme going! LOL! Beautiful colors, lovely texture and detail!
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