{"id":6141,"date":"2015-05-12T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2015-06-02T22:16:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T02:16:20","slug":"tiny-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/tiny-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"tiny bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things about taking pictures in the garden is seeing what I am not able to see with my eye thanks to the macro lens and the ability to zoom and crop in post-production.<\/p>\n<p>In my last post I showed an image of Allium from my flowerbed.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s another shot of the allium in bloom showing how these large &#8220;puffballs&#8221; are made from a cluster of tiny flowers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6142\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9484.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9484.jpg 600w, http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9484-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I was taking pictures I saw a tiny bee bouncing around on one allium stem.\u00a0 Look at how very tiny it was.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6143\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9531.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9531.jpg 900w, http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9531-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the computer I was able to zoom and crop.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s amazing to see how large it&#8217;s eyes are and to see the tiny hairs on its body.\u00a0 These are details I could not see in person without touching this tiny bee (and risking a tiny but possibly painful sting&#8230; not to mention stressing out and endangering this little pollinator).\u00a0 He was so small and so quick that I could generally only observe that it was a bee.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is up close:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6146\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9526T1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9526T1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9526T1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6145\" title=\"Bee on purple allium side view by Catina Anderson\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9531T.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9531T.jpg 600w, http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_9531T-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things about taking pictures in the garden is seeing what I am not able to see with my eye thanks to the macro lens and the ability to zoom and crop in post-production. 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