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Garden Flowers And Bees – wk32

The cone flowers (echinacea) are currently blooming in our garden. I was experimenting with macro shots and attempted some in-camera multiple exposures. This image was made from several frames, making minor movements between each image. A total of 8 frames were exposed to create this image.

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Cone Flower Multi Exposure

And here is another image of a different flower.

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Cone Flower Multi Exposure, No 2

The bees were visiting the flowers, but I was not successful in capturing an image. Bind weed are a common plant in Colorado. They grow upwards, twisting around a stem or a branch of an unsuspecting plant. They even have pretty little pink flowers. Here is one bind weed that overtook the cone flower. The curling leaf provides a nice balance to the head of the cone flower.

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Cone Flower And Bind Weed

In a nearby bed, the spiraea bush had recently started to bloom.The bees were attracted to these bushes in large numbers. There were at least four different species of bees gathering nectar. Each branch of the bush has two or three clusters of flowers at the base of a leaf node.

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Blue Spirea

Eventually I got lucky capturing an image that included a bee. This was not easy, because there was a light breeze and the bees were only spending a few seconds on each flower cluster. I had plenty of rejects with moving flowers or moving bees.

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Spiraea With Bee

It will be interesting to try for some more images of these flowers — maybe next weekend.

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  • John Clute September 8, 2010, 7:41 pm

    Interesting first couple of photos. Not sure what you where trying to do there. It almost looks like you may have had too much coffee.

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