[kashari]

Incredible photos this week, thanks all! I recently bought a D60 and have a lot to learn. But you all have some great tips and hopefully I’ll start understanding more of them. 🙂

Doing these different themes have been helpful exercises and fun!

[kashari]

Is it ok to select one picture from our grouping in the “Take Three” contest, since they were posted as one entry?

[kashari]

I guess it might depend on whether the bee is sitting/at rest on the flower while getting nectar, woudln’t it? Or are they active enough even while sitting that it’s close enough?

Yeah, that’s what I was wondering, because they’re still ‘active’, but not really moving that we can see. I’ve got a couple where you can see the probiscus down in the flower.

[kashari]

So if it’s not actually hovering, but is actively ‘sucking’, for lack of a better word, is that ok? I think I remember reading something to the effect that if it wasn’t going to be in the same place in a second, that would work?

Well, it isn’t standing on its proboscis, so it would work for me.

Cool, thanks! I almost got a good shot of a couple of urban duckies taking off out of our pool, but it has a bit too much blur I think. So I’m down to the bees I gues.

[kashari]

Would a bee getting nectar from a flower count as ‘not at rest’?

The theme is actually “Airborne or otherwise not at rest”, so something hovering in the air would count.

So if it’s not actually hovering, but is actively ‘sucking’, for lack of a better word, is that ok? I think I remember reading something to the effect that if it wasn’t going to be in the same place in a second, that would work?

[kashari]

Would a bee getting nectar from a flower count as ‘not at rest’?

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