Bee gathering pollen on flower

Please critique this digital photo of a bumble bee on top of a

flower. The shot was taken at the Gilcrease Museum Gardens in a large

sweet-smelling flowering shrub. It was taken with an Olympus D-460Z

in macro mode with natural light.

There are two problems I see with this image.First, it includes a lot of extraneousimage area. I'd crop it down to just thebee. Perhaps the bee and the flower, but probably just the bee. Fill the frame with yoursubject! Second, the bee is located right onthe border of the light flower and dark background, which means she's almost lostin the background. It would have been niceif you could have gotten a different angle where the bee stands out against whatever's behind it.

Photographic insects in their natural environmentis very difficult!

Thanks for the comments. The bees were moving very quickly from blossom to blossom and these are the three that I could get from 35 exposures.

 

Once again, thanks for the criticism and I will endeavor to do better.