Thanks for the kind words. I like the first one too, the second was under exposed so I fooled with it a bit in PS, That's why it looks a little washed out. I thought it was kind of funny with the bee's butt hanging out.
I think the sharpening may be a little too much compresion on my part and when I uploaded them to imagecave I forgot to uncheck the "auto optimize" button. Beware the "auto optimize".