{"id":832,"date":"2010-08-29T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/29\/bee-on-a-tattered-heliopsis-flower"},"modified":"2018-05-13T13:38:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T11:38:19","slug":"bee-on-a-tattered-heliopsis-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/29\/bee-on-a-tattered-heliopsis-flower","title":{"rendered":"Bee on a Tattered Heliopsis Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been doing a lot of macro work lately, mostly studying my favorite summer garden flowers: oxeye (aka <i>heliopsis<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>The oxeye blossom has an interesting life-cycle, that may be the subject of a future post. In the following image, I found a blossom near the end of its lifespan: the petals are coming apart and the whole appearance of the flower is &#8230; tattered.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there was apparently enough pollen and nectar left in the center to make it interesting enough for bees to come visiting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christiandoenges\/4937461282\/\" title=\"Bee on a Tattered Heliopsis Flower by Christian Doenges, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bee on a Tattered Heliopsis Flower\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4094\/4937461282_f3cb03765d.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because there was a slight wind causing the blossom to sway on its long stalk and because the bees where buzzing about, I decided to shoot hand-held, not from a tripod. Despite the bright afternoon sun, I needed some additional flash in order to get the short exposure time required to eliminate motion blur.<\/p>\n<p>So there I was holding the camera in my left hand and a speedlite attached via a short cord in the other hand &#8230; No idea what the neighbors where thinking, but then, they should be used to me by now. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I think I will get a flash bracket real soon now. <br \/><span style=\"color: white;\">3GNAGC2URTQQ<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been doing a lot of macro work lately, mostly studying my favorite summer garden flowers: oxeye (aka heliopsis). The oxeye blossom has an interesting life-cycle, that may be the subject of a future post. In the following image, I found a blossom near the end of its lifespan: the petals are coming apart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}