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Royal, I did it!!! Well, I sorta did it! .............

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Kelley (Texas)

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At long last, I finally got a couple of macro bug pictures without using wasp spray, scotch tape, or straight pins. These are for real! I was trying to take a picture of the yellow flower when all of a sudden the bee landed on it. I took about ten pictures before the bee left the scene, but these two are the only ones that were half way decent. I do recognise the fact that they are not of the same quality as the ones that have been posted by Royal in the past, but it is a step in the right direction. I took the pictures using the "Auto" mode on my point and shoot digital camera and the pictures came out with some grain, and they may be slightly out of focus. This is a small step in the right direction now that I know I can do it, but I recognise that I have a long way to go to attain the high level quality of the pictures posted by Royal in the past. Kelley (Texas) :)

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You didn't get stung did you? :D Look at your camera. There should be a macro setting, it usually looks like a flower. Try it out on just a flower and let it do its thing. You might have to move closer or farther away but it makes no difference many times. Just get the thing in focus and then use your computer to get closer. Focus is everything :D

You are getting it. USE Macro though
 
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and I ended up running for my life instead of taking pictures. I was just lucky today! Kelley (Texas) :)
 
Lookin Good Fred!!

Macro (Extreme Close-Up) photography has always been done with a tri-pod, special lenses and special film in the past, but in recent years cameras have evolved to the point where great pics can be taken hand held.

The electrical components of the modern camera compensate for all sorts of errors and allow one to do things that were impossible a decade ago simply by setting up the camera and pressing a button. Poor exposure can then be tweaked in the computer via an editing program to allow for perfect pictures where in the past the dark-room and developing technician ruled.

In the past photography was one of my passions and I am amazed by today's technology and how far it progresses in a very short time.

Thanks for sharing your pics Friend,

CJ
 
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I love bee's. Nature\agriculture would fall apart without them. Honeybee's are being decimated worldwide by some unknown illness. So please don't kill them unless its necessary for your\loved ones safety:) The hybridized african one's:( are fair game for removal though.......dangerous and serve no useful purpose here in the U.S. Just make sure you know their african bees before ya Rambo them.
 
on the beach where you often roam? Every so often, we read in the newspaper or see on TV where someone finds a gold coin washed up on some beach down at the Gulf Coast of Texas. There are lots of treasure stories about the pirates burying treasures, but no one ever seems to find the buried treasures. Kelley (Texas) :)
 
I heard and spotted a large flock of either geese or ducks high in the sky, in a "V" formation heading north. This might be an indication that the hard winter that you folks have experienced might be coming to an end. This has been a strange winter. Our winter is about over, temperatures will hit 80 degrees today, but now it is time for the tornado season to begin. Kelley (Texas) :)
 
seen one, only hear about them attacking someone. When I was a young boy, we found a large honey bee hive in a tree and told our parents about it. My father, Uncle Doc and others went and got the hive, lots of honey in it. I also remember a man that lived several miles west of us that had lots of those white colored bee boxes out in his back yard near the tree line of a pasture. He let the bees live there and he would get the honey, put it in jars and sell it to the local folks. I always left the bees alone, found out if I messed with them that I always came out on the short end and got stung. Kelley (Texas) :)
 
never suffered a sting. That is not to say I have never been stung but not when I knew they were there. They do not want to sting you because then they die. That is the honey bee's. When a person starts yelling and swinging their hands around it is a threat and they are pre-programed to attack a threat. I have had them drink the sweat off my arm.

Now those white faced wasps are a different thing. I have gotten some pictures but watch them closely. Paper wasps are sorta ornery too but if you move in on them slowly they are usually OK.

Take a little strawberry jam and put in on your picnic table and it will attract them too. They are usually too intent on gathering the jam to bother with you if you move slow.

Let me know how it works out for you. :D
 
Fred, the pirate Black Beard was supposedly active in this area and there have been stories about how he and others might have buried loot along the North Eastern shoreline. In the 1800s several chests were dug up on Gardner's Island off the eastern end of Long Island and transported to Boston where the government was supposed to have confiscated them.

An old-timer I knew years ago who grew up in the area where I live on the Connecticut shore was sure that treasure is still hidden here somewhere and he suggested a couple of prominent landmarks as places to check out. Metal detecting is as close as I have ever come to treasure hunting, but I keep my eyes and ears open never the less.

Regards,

CJ
 
They are not as nice as the ones that you describe. When I was a young boy, I remember stepping on a honey bee and how bad the sting felt. Knowing it was going to die did not prevent it from stinging me. The worst ones that I have encountered are those red colored wasp bees. When I first started trying to take pictures of bees after seeing the pictures that you posted, it seems that they just wanted to sting you at the drop of a hat. I had a running battle with one red wasp bee for several days and never did get a picture of it until I got fed up with it's antics and killed it with some wasp spray. I think that my first bug picture might have been of this red wasp bee. The picture was the body of the red wasp bee laying on it's back with it's feet up in the air. It might have had a broken wing too, but not sure. Wait a minute, the bug with the broken wind might have been the Tree Roach that I smashed and brought into the house to snap a picture. I remember Debbie yelling at me to get the bug off the kitchen table and out of the house! Let me get back to the subject of bees, they are just not the same down here in south Texas. If you try to take a picture of a bee up close down here, you better be prepared for making a run for the house. They are mean tempered, not like the nice bees that you described. Kelley (Texas) :)
 
ours up here are chicken. When someone steps on them these silly things think we are gonna squersh them and sting. If you are afraid of them, take pictures of feathers :thumbup::rofl:
 
I think it is always best just to leave them alone. You are much braver than me to get so close to them.
 
I'm sure no-one wants to be stung unless it is to ease other suffering.

There is a thing called "bee-sting therapy" that uses bee stings to stimulate endorphens for the purpose of reducing painful arthritis symptoms.

It's very effective and reduces suffering for many people!

CJ
 
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