We get bugs. I get bugs. I get to photograph them – a praying mantis and a bumble bee. Fortuitous? Luck? Chance? The opportunity occurs randomly and not frequently.
I go for the dot in the praying mantis eye.
“A praying mantis has 5 eyes! You would think two would be enough, but not for a hunter like this. Small eyes in the middle of the head are used for detecting light while the big compound eyes are for seeing movement and having depth vision.”
Ok! You learn something new every day. I do not see more than one dot per eye.
Bumble bee?
“A bumblebee is any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae, one of the bee families.”
I see one type of bumble bee? More? They sting? Nah! I swat them away from me all the time.
The shot? Get in close. Macro lens. Focus. It seems I cannot quite get in close enough. The macro lens gives me plenty of detail. I’m still working on it. The praying mantis sat on my screen for two days. Oh my?!
The bumble bee was one of several buzzing my passion flowers. It was hard to photograph. The bee was buried under the pistil and partially covered. Focus. I tried and got detail of the pollen covered thorax. Depth of field is so shallow with the macro lens. It was hard to get the bee and flower detail in focus simultaneously.
My present goal was to just get in close and focus on the details.
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