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Summer Love with a Big 'Hug'


Summer Love with a Big 'Hug'
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Copyright: Paras Bhalla (parasbhalla) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 500 W: 0 N: 1506] (6295)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-09-09
Categories: Nature
Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC-P150
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/100 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-09-16 0:59
Viewed: 152
Points: 50
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Good Morning, All!

For few seconds, I watched the 'great love' of bee for this attractive flower. The bee, full of pollens on its body, was indeed so much in 'love' with the flower, that the bee was unaware of my presence just next door :) Keeping all this in my mind, therefore, I decided the title of my today's post as: "Summer Love with a Big Hug".

As my other posts on TL, this picture shows colors and the lovely summer feelings. I hope you too are enjoying the season depending on your global position.


best Greetings,

Paras

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Information from Wikipedia on "Honeybee":

Honey bees (or honeybees) are a subset of bees, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests out of wax. Honey bees are the only extant members of the tribe Apini, all in the genus Apis. Currently, there are only seven recognized species of honey bee with a total of 44 subspecies (Engel, 1999) though historically, anywhere from six to eleven species have been recognized. Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the approximately 20,000 known species of bees. Some other types of related bees produce and store honey, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees.

Origin, systematics and distribution

Honey bees as a group appear to have their center of origin in South and Southeast Asia (including the Philippines), as all but one of the extant species are native to that region, notably the most plesiomorphic living species (Apis florea and A. andreniformis). [1] The first Apis bees appear in the fossil record at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary, in European deposits dating about 35 million years ago. The origin of these prehistoric honey bees does not necessarily indicate that Europe is where the genus originated, only that it occurred there at that time. There are few known fossil deposits in the suspected region of honey bee origin, and fewer still have been thoroughly studied. There is only one fossil species documented from the New World, Apis nearctica, known from a single 14-million-year old specimen from Nevada[2].

The close relatives of modern honey bees - e.g. bumblebees and stingless bees - are also social to some degree, and social behavior seems a plesiomorphic trait that predates the origin of the genus. Among the extant members of Apis, the more basal species make single, exposed combs, while the more recently-evolved species nest in cavities and have multiple combs, which has greatly facilitated their domestication.

Most species have historically been cultured or at least exploited for honey and beeswax by humans indigenous to their native ranges. Only two of these species have been truly domesticated, one (Apis mellifera) at least since the time of the building of the Egyptian pyramids, and only that species has been moved extensively beyond its native range.

Today's honey bees constitute three clades (Engel 1999, Arias & Sheppard 2005)

Please look for more information on Wikipedia.
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Good morning Paras
Impressive macro shot and timing
Amazing details, sharpness and colors
Have a nice days
Burak

Good Morning Paras, my neighbour, today.
I have watched bees feeding in the lavatera, too. They always seem to be a particular type of bee and always get completely covered in pollen, like a bride with confetti!
This is a lovely capture.
The angle of the off-centre flower makes a good b/g for the bee which can clearly be seen holding on to the stigma.
A good dof allows the focal images to stand out clearly against the oof b/g.

Kind regards,
Bev :-)

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  • Fons Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1299 W: 2 N: 202] (15596)
  • [2009-09-16 1:12]

nice flower with a large visitor

Hi Paras,
An amazing POV to capture this macro of this busy bee getting drunk in this abundance of pollen!
Fantastic colors and details!
Sharpness is impeccable!
I like the blurred flower on the right, it balances the presentation.
Well done,

Francis Xavier

Hello,
Wow! Stunning catch!
Magnificent macro shot!
Perfect sharpness and lovely colors.
TFS
Have a good day!

good shot, excellent macro, good composition, beautiful bee in the flower, color and sharpness, hugs

Hello Paras, I like your title, most appropriate.
Lovely shot that seems to celebrate the season, just as you intended.
Tfs, regards Jean.

Bonjour Paras

A beautiful flower, and a lot of details.
Really good composition. :)
Tellie.

Hello, Paras -
Super macro showing the loving hug of the bee. It's body is almost completely obscured by the specks of pollen all over. Great summer feel with warm colors and great sharpness to show the details of the flower's petals. Nice image.

Good shot, beautiful color and sharpness.
Zoran

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  • chrisJ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4237 W: 414 N: 6691] (42201)
  • [2009-09-16 5:16]

Hi Paras

A superb floral macro with very good use of a shallow dof & exellent sharpness on both the flower & the pollen covered insect. Superb colour contrasts between the violet blue flower, & yellow green vegetation. Tfs!

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  • Juliet Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 877 W: 64 N: 1973] (13584)
  • [2009-09-16 5:42]

Hi Paras,
This is a nice photo! I love the bee covered in pollen, really nice natural color and good sharpness. Well done and TFS Julie

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  • Dot Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1412 W: 31 N: 3054] (12386)
  • [2009-09-16 7:14]

Hi Paras
A good choice of title for this well taken shot.
That bee is so full of pollen I wondered if it was able to fly away. Lots of details and wonderful colors.
Dot

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  • vanda Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 245 W: 0 N: 246] (1706)
  • [2009-09-16 7:22]

Ciao Paras,
Another lovely macro with a bee in action.
Excellent POV. Very good sharpness and details.
Very, very nice.
Congratulations.
ciao. Vanda

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  • nicou Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1285 W: 0 N: 2535] (20568)
  • [2009-09-16 7:24]

Hello,

L'insecte est complètement soupoudré de pollen, de toute beauté comme si on lui avait lancé de conféti, grandisoe macre en train de se délectger dans cette belle fleur.

bravoe t amitié

Nicou

Ciao Paras,


Fine details in flower and insect!
Excellent colour reproduction, and the composition
is attractive with an intriguing 3-D feeling...
Well done on the macro part, sharp fine details!

Greetings,

Sergio

Hello Paras,
What a nice composition and good clarity. I can count pollens on bee. Colr of petals are well contrasted with BG
TFS
Selahattin E

Hello Peras,
Very nice macro photo, good captured, interesting and good work, good composition colour, congratulations
Best regards
Siegfried

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  • AKITA Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1019 W: 81 N: 66] (12300)
  • [2009-09-16 19:05]

dear Paras,
in this picture, the tone of colors is a little under than your previous shot "Pollinator "at work"",
it is effective to express settled atmosphere there,
and back green looks nicely dark too.
anyway, a cheerful relation between the flower and the bee is well captured, and we can see the beautiful colored stage in their ordinary life in it.
thank you for your excellent shot,
Akihisa

Hi Paras,
great macro picture and details.
picture very sharp and clear,
great colors and light,
very well done.
Michel

Hi Paras,

Another wonderful and also colourful macro from you.
Excellent focus and nice composition.
TFS and have a nice day!
Cheers,

Bayram

Merhaba Paras Jan,
What a stunning macro view vith excellent POV, colours and frame.TFS.
Cheers,

hAyAti

Ciao Paras, lovely busy bee full of pollen on a fantastic flower, fine details, splendid colors, superb sharpness, very well done, ciao Silvio

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  • c_rapp Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 957 W: 20 N: 1282] (7282)
  • [2009-09-17 11:09]

Wonderful capture! lovely color with a great pov! quite beautiful. They are truly fascinating to watch! TFS
Christan

very nice colors and great scene for this cute bee
well done
have a nice day
Matteo

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