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Bumble-Bee
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Copyright: Thorsten Buchen (thor68) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 792 W: 138 N: 1312] (5642)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-07-17
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon EOS 300D, Sigma DC 18-125mm f/3,5-5,6, Kingston CF 1GB, Hoya 62 mm UV
Exposure: f/9.0, 1/320 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-07-22 5:16
Viewed: 3836
Points: 20
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Bumble-Bee on a thistle

found in the Wuppertal Zoo´s insect "park".

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Bumblebees are large, hairy insects with a lazy buzz
and clumsy, bumbling flight. Many of them are black
and yellow, and along with ladybirds and butterflies
are perhaps the only insects that almost everyone
likes.

Like honey bees, bumblebees are social insects,
although only the new queens can survive the winter by
hibernating. Unlike honey bees European bumblebees
rarely sting, although workers and queens do have a
sting. This makes it quite easy and safe to have a
close look at bumblebees and watch them as they drink
nectar and gather pollen from flowers.

Bumblebees are found mainly in northern temperate
regions, though there are a few native South American
species and New Zealand has some naturalised species
that were introduced around 100 years ago to pollinate
red clover. They range much further north than honey
bees, and colonies can be found on Ellesmere Island in
northern Canada, only 880 km from the north pole.

[http://www.bumblebee.org/]
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Hello Thorsten!
Very nice bumblebee capture.Vivid colors,simple BG,sharpness,POV and composition are perfect.Thanks for sharing.

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3315 W: 148 N: 6113] (18648)
  • [2005-07-22 18:30]

Hi Thorsten, good job here with the bumble bee on the thistle. I like it how he is burrowing into the flowerhead. The lighting is good it is all nice and sharp. Well done.

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  • sway Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 303 W: 85 N: 308] (1224)
  • [2005-07-22 19:47]

The humble Bumble bee is one of my favourite insects, they are so non-threatening.
You have catured this one so well just going about his business.
Nicely composed shot.
Lovely colours
Great focus.
:)

Hello Thorsten

Wow... magnificent macro. The light is perfect allowing for excellent detail. Tack sharp with awsome depth of colour. The pollen on this busy Bumble Bee looks like gold dust. Nice work. Thanks.

Nice close-up, Thor
Good sharpness, very colourful.
TFS!

Good clear shot Thorsten with great details and colors! Well composed, Good work!!

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  • dew77 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4774 W: 294 N: 4020] (13209)
  • [2005-07-25 9:03]

Hello Thorsten!
Wonderful bumble bee capture.Thistle is very sharp and clear detailed as the buble bee.Blurred BG and 3D effect are wonderful.
TFS...:-)

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  • jimzzz (44)
  • [2005-07-26 13:03]

Beautiful composition, photo very clear and sharp. Very well done.

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  • halki Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 249 W: 8 N: 105] (469)
  • [2005-07-30 3:10]

Hello Thorsten!
Nice close up.Great details and colors.
Thanks for posting.

Hi, Thorsten!
I browsed to your gallery and I found this image one of your most beautiful pictures!
Everything all right%colors, DOF, light.
Best regards. Tanya.

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