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Post by jc on Jul 24, 2008 21:55:01 GMT
Just lovely. Was thinking that one with the bee half in the flower would make an excellent postcard. You should contact a card company to sell some of these prints. I know I would be
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Post by kedigato on Jul 26, 2008 8:54:40 GMT
Thanks JC. A nice thought, selling postcards of some of my shots, but I think I need to practice more first. Here are a couple more pics. I've now started cropping and texting some of them. Caught in the web - Hoverfly on pink -
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Post by jc on Jul 26, 2008 9:58:36 GMT
No way do you need to practice more. I have seen postcards not half as good. Your pics are a delight Kedi
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Post by kedigato on Jul 29, 2008 18:09:51 GMT
Thank you very much, JC. Two hoverflies on a Chinese Anenome - Hoverfly on margarite center -
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Post by jc on Jul 29, 2008 18:14:26 GMT
Just look at the intricacy of the flower - just brilliant
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Post by nazimundo on Jul 29, 2008 20:54:47 GMT
Lovely pics Kedi, Hoverflies are one of my favourite things to photograph.
Alfie
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Post by kedigato on Jul 30, 2008 14:29:15 GMT
Thanks nazimundo. I like them too. as they very often stay in one place long enough to get a decent picture. Or at least come back to the same flower, so it is worth waiting for them. ;D
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Post by kedigato on Jul 31, 2008 11:45:13 GMT
Bee yellow -
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Post by nazimundo on Jul 31, 2008 19:12:34 GMT
Lovely photo Kedi brilliant colours. Insects seem to be attracted to yellow. I spent a lot of summers wearing a bright yellow shirt for work and was always plagued by pollen beetles. Here's some I took this morning. Alfie
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Post by kedigato on Jul 31, 2008 20:32:55 GMT
Brilliant - insects and flowers! Were they all taken in your garden, nazimundo? I wonder what the little black bugs are in the middle pic? The bee in the last pic has done a good days job, methinks.
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Post by nazimundo on Jul 31, 2008 21:16:33 GMT
Hi Kedi All the photos were taken in our garden,we don't have a lot of flowers but we have more than our fair share of bees as the local honey farm has hives near the bottom of the front garden. I don't know what the beetles are either but you get lots of them on oil seed rape flowers.
Alfie
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Post by kedigato on Aug 3, 2008 12:45:40 GMT
You must have plenty of bees then, Alfie. Can you buy honey directly from the honey farm? Hoverfly washing itself -
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Post by nazimundo on Aug 3, 2008 14:47:41 GMT
We have loads of bees both honey and bumble, in fact this morning I saw the biggest bumble bee I have ever seen but I didn't have my camera with me. You can buy honey and many other bee related products directly from the honey farm which is about 20 miles from us. Here's a link to their web site www.chainbridgehoney.co.ukLike your hoverfly lovely and clear, not much doing this end too much rain. Here's one I took the other day. Alfie
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Post by kedigato on Aug 3, 2008 18:38:17 GMT
Love the hoverfly on the beautiful flower, nazimundo.
Interesting link, I enjoyed reading it. A friend of ours keeps bees and makes honey as a side-line to his nursery (where we got all of our garden plants when we built here).
I love clover honey best. I remember buying a lovely creamy one back in the States, I think it was a Canadian one. Never found one as good as that since.
I've tried bees-wax hand cream and it is good and not greasy.
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Post by DAG on Aug 4, 2008 6:31:44 GMT
Thanks for the link Alfie, I think their products would make good presents!
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