Last Of Summer's Nectar - (View Larger)

Busy at work, the bees were in a 'flurry' today, perhaps they knew it

was going to rain very hard today. (thankyou for dropping by, Gail)

Beautiful shot ,great colours .congrats .

Amazing details & colours with an artistic composition. Thanks for sharing.

My best regards.

Kallol

Beautiful work again with very nice details and lighting, Gail!

With best regards,

Ruud.

Fantastic, beautiful details and colors, I love it

Gail, I'm not sure how you did the fading color in this, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Though I like the lightness of the color in the center and softness of the flower in contrast to the more richly detailed and color of the bee. Also I like the perspective from above. I'll have to visit this again and have another look. 

Great image Gail,

I like the selective color concentrated in the center with fade out to grey tones at the periphery. Nicely done!

I wish the summer will never end!:). Excellent close-up with a very good composition and colors.

Congrats. 

My best regards. Cosmin

Hi Gail,

Good capture.

However, you know what I am going to say.............see my other review.

Remember, you spent a fair amount of money for that Canon macro. It is good to get your money's worth.

Best Regards,  Mike

Very nice colors, Gail. I like it. Best wishes, Olaf

An excellent macro-shot Gail with teriffic use of selected/faded colouring. One can almost hear the buzzzzzzzing!!.....Take care and Regards!

Great capture, Gail !! Regards

Many thanks for those kind words of critique Ricardo, so nice to hear from you,

Warm regards, Gail

It is always a pleasure to hear from you Keith, your input is very important to me, thankyou for taking the time,

Kindest regards, Gail

Great to hear from you Olaf, thankyou for sharing your thoughts on that image,

Sincerely, Gail

Thankyou for sharing your thoughts Mike, I do appreciate your input. I do want to get the best results from the Macro.  ( I was fortunate though, the Macro came in a  'package deal' that my cousin won, he had hoped to win a computer, but won the Camera and lenses instead. I couldn't afford to buy it all from him, so I traded him for some Limited Edition prints we had). Fortunately for me it is the only way I finally got a Camera where I could change lenses).

That does not negate the fact that I want to learn to use them to their best potential! Will keep on 'keepin on' hopefully better! I don't know if a tripod would help in a situation where the bees are flitting about and the wind is blowing also? Can you move a tripod around quickly,  while it is mounted? Something else to learn! Cheers,

Talk again soon, Gail 

Thankyou so much for those kind words, very encouraging! I'm with you, summer never lasts long enough!

Warmest regards, Gail

Thanks so much for your visit Warren, you know I love hearing your  input on my images. Take care,

Gail

It is an 'effect' that is in Photoshop Elements called 'Color Fade Horizontal' and I applied it in error, but kind of liked it, so I left it! Have hardly ever used it before. Thanks so much for your visit and your input, truly appreciated.

Warm regards, Gail

Many thanks for your visit! Happy you liked the image Alberto!

Kind regards, Gail

Gorgeous shot with excellent color, and detail Gail! Nice work capturing one of these busy fellows in action!

All the best,
Neil

This is an outstanding macro again and a superb addition to your latest macro series, once again my friend, the lighting is super and so the details are so fine, the two shared formats here, the b/w and colors has given this image a remarkable creative touch and well enhanced the appearance of this image, all of that good work you to this lovely image is of great credit to your well thought off composition.

Thank you my friend for sharing it and wishing you all of the best.

Beautiful macro work. The camera work is exquisite.

wonderful tones. I quite like the faded color to B&W around the edges. nice clear focus.

An excellent close up Gail, with great composition and colours,nicely done... I have not been around of-late but it's wedding season again over here and bills have to be paid and food on the table, but I can still get time to say hallo...... so take care my good friend, kind regards Grant...