A bee and a flower—it’s such a simple, yet beautiful composition. I photographed this Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica) on a globe thistle flower this past Tuesday in the garden of my neighbor and dear friend Cindy Dyer.
Some folks might suffer a little cognitive dissonance when they look at the flower in the photo and hear the name “globe” thistle. I thought about renaming it “hemisphere thistle” for the purposes of the picture. 🙂
Beauty is everywhere.
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And a beauty it is !
👍 great shot, Mike!
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Exquisite
Beautiful combination, Mike.
Thanks, Dan.
Hand-held, I suspect? It looks as if it had been studio-posed, but in my experience, they move way too fast for tripod setup. Thanks for enabling the double-click enlargement; it’s well worth it!
Thanks, Gary. The shot was in fact hand held. The bee was preoccupied and let me get pretty close. I am still using the Classic Editor, which lets the photos be enlarged, and have gotten into the habit of posting images a bit larger than necessary.
I’m using the Classic version too and like it just fine, and I have no intention whatsoever of “up”grading to the new one.
I’ll change to the block editor only if I am forced to do so. The classic editor has a no-frills approach that simply works.