Another outstanding image, Carel - you're making this look easy (and I know that it's not)! I love the soft natural light. The bee is posing nicely on an interesting perch, and you have excellent DOF, a nice comp, and a good background. Very well done, as usual.
Carel, this is a really nice image; the only thing I would have done is perhaps clone out the wisp of a web in the lower left corner of the image...for some reason that caught my eye. Great background, wonderful composition...nice capture!
I tried to get this same type of image the other day with little success - you DO make it look easy! Very nice focus...you really captured all the details to the max and I found myself wrapped up in looking at every one of them.
Thank you all for the comments.
For me it is not difficult to make when you know how a thing works.
I use live view, it is easy to compose, and also for exposure to it is easy.
I make almost always full frame images.
This is full frame and made with live view, of course, with a cable release.