As Marci discussed in our family blog, she recently hosted a baby shower at our house for a friend. While that was going on, I grabbed my camera and went on a photo adventure to our neighborhood park/pond/trail. My main intent was to play with some new filters I got for my camera, which I did, and will discuss in future posts, but I found a tree with really pretty flower buds that was buzzing with lots of bees.
A quick note on bees. They fall into the "flying bugs" category of my highly scientific understanding of insects.
I strongly dislike flying bugs. They don't gross me out, they don't scare me, they simply make me uncomfortable with their vastly superior mobility. When surprised by a flying bug, I typically respond in a fashion explained so incredibly well by the comedian Brian Regan (listen to that bit here --> Spider Webs and Bees).
That being said, as I recently purchased a macro lens for my camera, I felt an inexplicable urge to take pictures of bugs. Quite the dilemma.
Mustering up some courage I managed to snap some pretty cool pictures and avoided getting stung.
However, there was one moment that I'm not proud off. I was focused in quite close on one of the bees and it flew right into the front of my lens with an ever so slight "tap". Oh man, you would have thought the bee had flow right into my eyeball with the amount of random flailing that followed that "tap". After composing myself, I could feel the nearby families' uncertainty towards me as they carefully escorted their children further down the walking trail. "Daddy, what happened to that man, is he okay?", "Yes dear, now let's move along."
Anyways, Bug Pictures from my flickr photostream!
