Getting Acquainted

[invisible]

This is my technically my first attempt at macro photography. C&C are much appreciated.

Also, if anybody knows exactly what flower and what insect are depicted here, please let me know :blushing:

 

[Bifurcator]

The insect is a bee, I dunno the flower.

I like the soft focus you got on that flower.

Did you crop this at all or just scale it down?

 

[invisible]

Did you crop this at all or just scale it down?

Thanks for the comment, Bifurcator, much appreciated. This is a crop, but the original image wasn't really much bigger.

Here's another image that I captured right after the one above (it seems that at this point the bee felt already sufficiently acquainted with the flower, and the foreplay was no more...).

 

[toots23]

I like the first one

 

[Senor Hound]

I'm pretty sure that's your standard run-of-the-mill honey bee. I could be wrong.

BTW, great color in your flower. The bee also gives it a sense of action, even though its not moving. It helps differentiate it from all of those other flower shots.

 

[matt-l]

looks more like a wasp to me...bees are fatter and the abdomens are not that shape, i like the second one better, the wasp is more in focus and its a better perspective.