That, sir, is not a butt, but a blep. Gorgeous pic tho!

Thank you!

It is!

Thank you so much!

Right?!

Thank you! A proper camera (R7) with a 85mm lens :) I know some people manage great macro with their phones, but I couldn’t have gotten close enough with a phone, the bees hurried back into their tunnels whenever I got near.

Herons look so incredibly cool. Until you see them from the front, of course. Gorgeous shot!

You drive through the fields and spot a dishevelled young woman hunching over roadkill, reaching into the corpse with pliers as flies buzz around her. You accidentally make eye contact just as she - grinning - drops a writhing maggot into a translucent plastic bottle.

I love it too! I wish I had noticed it when the picture was taken, because it’s gorgeous.

Bees are macro on hard mode, they never stop moving. You did a fantastic job. I always end up using burst mode and prayer. Have fun experimenting!

She looks like she’s wearing a pollen crown!

The bees are the best. They get SO dusty. Also: can I see, please?

90% “that’s amazing, I had no idea it looked so cool” and 10% “what is this ungodly abomination, let me unsee this” in my experience :)

Why settle when I could get a 800mm 5.6 for a mere 14k?

The only reason I didn’t impulse buy a teleconverter to tack on my impulse bought 600mm is that it would just get me (more) underexposed pictures. But the urge is real, and we don’t even have bald eagles around here.

I saw some active webrings on neocities sites!

Try cloudhiker

Thanks! He’s so puffy, I figured he was cold.

Gorgeous photograph. How cold was it outside that day?

Such a beautiful bird