White tailed bumble bee

[Jonathan Ashton]

Tripod Canon 1DX Canon 180mm macro Auto ISO 1600 +0.3, 1/1600 sec f13
I managed to get the wings on this one! I would appreciate your strongest criticism on this one please.

[Bill Nuttall]

That's very good Jon

colours, composition and all the technical aspects of the shot

and ISO1600 has stood up really well

maybe slightly too shadowy in places which you could look at in pp ……. but I am sure that's how you saw it .. so it is just a matter of opinion

I would be extremely happy if I had taken that shot

[Warren Spreng]

Terrifically sharp image, great DOF, I'm glad you got the wings this time!

[christopher galeski]

very nice capture Jonathan,nice colors,sharp with nice detail,like the BG,loverly composition.

[Norm Dulak]

Nice, Jon. Great color, background, composition and sharpness!

[Ron Conlon]

Outstanding. The only way I can think of to get a better shot would be to use flashes or compositing. This is an achievement approaching that, done the hard way.

[Diane Miller]

Excellent -- all said above. If it were mine I'd add a little canvas on top and maybe crop a little from the bottom if I needed to keep this aspect ratio.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks very much everyone much appreciated.

[Satish Ranadive]

Jonathan,
Excellent image. Bee looks wonderful, tack sharp with nice wing position. Superb colors and details.
If mine, would darken the flower slightly and remove the white spot on the leaf next to flower.
Composition is fine, however you have plenty of choices to recompose by placing the bee where ever you like, since it isolated and with uniform BG.
I am not expert in macro, but what I felt...is this...

Regards,
Satish.

[Mitch Carucci]

Difficult to criticize! A great image.