Robert O'Toole
05-01-2008, 12:25 PM
This is the Coreopsis flower, the Florida State Wildflower. The FDOT plants them all over the state, this was a great wildflower patch on the side of the road. The flowers were blooming over white sand creating a nice high key effect. This beetle was eating the pollen and was very tame. I have a hard time shooting just flowers I tend to go after subjects and some kind of natural history.
This image is about as out of the camera as you can possibly get, it is extracted Jpeg resized, cropped, sharpened and desaturated.
Can anyone ID the beetle, looks like a Blister Beetle to me.
Camera Model: NIKON D300 with Sigma 150mm F2.8 EX Focal length: 225mm (in 35mm film)
Shutter speed: 1/320 @ 5.6 Manual mode, manual Flash SB-R200, ISO: 400
This image is about as out of the camera as you can possibly get, it is extracted Jpeg resized, cropped, sharpened and desaturated.
Can anyone ID the beetle, looks like a Blister Beetle to me.
Camera Model: NIKON D300 with Sigma 150mm F2.8 EX Focal length: 225mm (in 35mm film)
Shutter speed: 1/320 @ 5.6 Manual mode, manual Flash SB-R200, ISO: 400