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Subject: [OM] Un-Bee-Lievable! (was: My attempt at bees)
From: "Chris Trask" <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 11:41:16 -0700
>
> >That's an E-M5 with the 12-50 kit lens in macro mode. Focus was
challenging
> >because the breeze was blowing the bush around quite a bit.
> >
> >The flower is a Texas Silver Sage.
> >
>
>      I have four different cultivars of that (Silver Cloud, White Cloud,
Green
> Cloud, and the original Texas Ranger).  They should all be blooming in the
next
> couple of weeks and I'm going to be out with the tripod, etc. to capture a
few
> bee photos.  Seems we have over a dozen species floating around when those
bloom.
>

    Right now every rain sage in the neighbourhood is in full bloom, as are
Mexican Bird of Paradise and Yellow Bells, and yet not a single solitary bee
is to be found.  Last year you could hear them from a short distance, but
now it's dead quiet all day long.

    Uh-oh!

Chris

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