Bee on Thistle

I've been watching the great work people have been posting here for

some time now... Many thanks to everyone for the great inspiration.

I think I'm ready to start posting myself, so here's what I humbly

consider to be one of my best recent images.

Very nice. Good exposure and depth of field.

Good focus here. The wings in the bee are set off nicely with the background. For me, the lighter background works better then the shadow area. The composition uses thirds very well and you have a high focal point which adds interest. Keep it up.

Lovely vivid colors and esxcellent BOKEH. Very good start Doug, welcome to P.N.!

Thanks for the comments so far. I think I'll do some work in Photoshop to see if I can make the background more uniform (lighter at the bottom) and perhaps work on the distracting leaves.