A Closeup Of A Bee

There was a bit of talk about bugs on flowers in my last post, especially bees, so I decided to show off my camera's ability to get good bee closeups. Actually it was only by chance that I got these pictures, but I thought they were nice and timely.

I always thought that you got a good picture if you can get your specific bug, especially bees, to look like a metallic creation of some kind. I've seen many pictures that get that quality. I think these pictures did okay in that sense. You can see the shine on the bees' backs.

Bees are some of the most beautiful bugs in existence. A good closeup always shows that. Their combination of colors seems to be just right to me. And their wings are like fairy wings. I'm not sure how you can get much better than that.

Any time you are taking pictures of plants you have a good chance of catching a bug in a shot or two. That, to me, is one of the most fun parts of taking this kind of picture. I said before that my eye for beautiful flowers may not be that good, but I know what I like when I see a bug.

A good bug can look more alien-like that anything else. That's because they so often make sci-fi aliens look like bugs. I wonder why they do that. Does somebody really think when the aliens come down they will look like bugs? I guess they might.

Aliens. Bugs. Maybe we look liker aliens to bugs. Maybe they think of us as crazed giants. Some of them do seem to get a bit upset by our presence. More of them have defenses against us than we think about. So many of them like to sting and bite. We can smash though, like the crazed giants we are. Talk to you later.