Bee

[Kaushik Balakumar]

I'd been on a small hike with few of my friends to a place where borders of 3 countries (Germany, Belgium, Netherlands) meet.
En route we had some spare time waiting for a bus. I went around looking for some interesting flower images while I found this bee. I wish I'd waited for the bee to take its front leg away (which is now blocking its eyes). I could not increase DoF to keep the legs sharp - too sad that I did'nt carry my tripod along.
I was almost thinking of discarding the image but the white petals & the yellow OOF areas kept me interested.
Would like to know ur thoughts...

http://www.pbase.com/bkaushik/image/111263028/original.jpg

Techs:
Nikon D300, Nikkor 105mm VR micro, hand-held
f/8, 1/125, ISO200, about 70% of full frame

[denise ippolito]

Kaushik, I think you are so lucky to be able to hike to a place where 3 countries border! I like the white and yellow areas also and don't find the need for the bee to be tack sharp-he isn't OOF and has quite a nice amount of detail.

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Kaushik,
I like it as presented...Your bee is placed just right in frame, I like the fine details and the telling of the story in the life of this little guy...:) well done...:cool: <!-- / sig -->

[Bob Allen]

Good detail on the bee - look at those hairs!