{"id":2094,"date":"2009-08-14T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T03:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2013-06-14T16:14:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:14:50","slug":"come-see-what-all-the-buzz-was-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2094","title":{"rendered":"Come see what all the buzz was about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/bee_46167.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I was at a friend&#8217;s house the other night when I noticed that they had some of the most unblemished flowers that I&#8217;d ever seen, just sitting there beside the garage waiting to be photographed. I had some time this afternoon so I stopped by with my camera, caught a fleeting bit of sunlight between the clouds, and snapped away. Bonus: the flowers were crawling with various species of bees.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/hungry_bee_46319.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>&#8220;Say, do you mind? I&#8217;m working here.&#8221; This fella didn&#8217;t look particularly thrilled at my <i>nectar interruptus<\/i>. This is perhaps my favorite shot of the day.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/bee_landing_46211.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I caught this bee coming in for a landing along one of these pale yellow flowers. I don&#8217;t know what plant species it is, but it&#8217;s handy that they are as tall as I am. For the shots on the orange flowers I was pretty much laying in the grass and on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/stumbling_bee_46174.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Even bugs stumble sometimes, and this was one of those rare occasions where I was in the right place to catch it. Oops. &#8220;I meant to do that!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/bee_cominatya_46103.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>&#8220;It&#8217;s coming right for us!&#8221; This was pretty trippy through the viewfinder. I took most of these at a distance of approximately six inches, the closest my fancy macro lens is able to focus.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/hungry_bee_46314.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Bring your own straw and drink up good, because the forecast was calling for a 50% chance of thunderstorms this weekend. Yuck. I&#8217;m glad I was able to share this little window of sunlight with the bugs. Maybe this weekend will contain some thunderstorm or lighting photography!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a friend&#8217;s house the other night when I noticed that they had some of the most unblemished flowers that I&#8217;d ever seen, just sitting there beside the garage waiting to be photographed. 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