Bee on a field of daisy

[Steve Maxson]

This small pollen-covered bee was foraging on a daisy flower. I like the way the background appears to be a vast field of yellow flowers. 40D, MP-E 65 mm, 1/250, f/16, ISO 100, macro twin flash (diffused), hand held. All comments are welcome and appreciated.

[John Chardine]

I'm detecting a yellow cast to this image Steve. Only joking!!! I love the colour! I like the position of the bee with the BG fading away, out of focus. Your f16 got almost the whole bee, and the most important parts in focus. Ah I just noticed you have the 65mm MP-E. What a lens!

[Kaushik Balakumar]

This is an awesome image. Excellent sharpness and details. Love the way you've captured the details in the hairs and the pollen sticking to its legs.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Well caught and super detail, I appreciate it will be very tricky to compose using this lens but if it were possible I would try to get a slightly more lateral view and from a lower angle - much easier said than done.

[Morkel Erasmus]

this is very nice Steve...great details and I love that the environment is all pollen :)

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Steve,
Yeah.....I generally prefer tighter view comps.......but this works so well due to the sharpness of the bee and how the DOF falloff does make it appear to be a field of flowers! Pollen on leg just takes this up even more IMO......very nicely done!!!!!

[Ken Childs]

Steve, there really isn't anything I can add to what's already been said so I'll just say this is really cool.

[Dave Leroy]

Lovely image Steve.

I particularly like the bg fading away with fg nice and sharp.

[Anita Bower]

That looks like one happy bee!