Posted by MaryB (Staffordshire, United Kingdom) on 22 January 2008 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.
Sorry I didn't get to everyone's blogs yesterday, will be catching up with you all today.
This was taken in September 07, when the wasps were helping themselves to my Elderberries. Ooops it's a wee bit bigger than I thought it would be LOL :D
Any tips or constructive criticism are welcome :)
I really appreciate all your comments, thank you so much. I'm only sorry I've not got time to respond. I do read all the comments and will try to answer any questions you have about my posts :)
AWESOME !!
22 Jan 2008 12:14am
Su,Uper detail, what an hairy bee!
22 Jan 2008 3:30am
Great macro shot!Very well done!
22 Jan 2008 4:24am
Love the detail, nice closeup
22 Jan 2008 4:39am
wow - very dramatic with how close the shot is (the wasp is a little scary). Nice coloring on the wasp as well.
22 Jan 2008 6:14am
Cool macro work!
22 Jan 2008 7:51am
Very Nice.
22 Jan 2008 8:43am
Terrific marco of this wasp, Mary!
22 Jan 2008 9:10am
Excellent macro shot, Mary!
22 Jan 2008 9:55am
Good capture, like the detail of the bee-body! ;)
22 Jan 2008 10:29am
OMG!! Fantastic, Mary!!!
22 Jan 2008 11:52am
Great close-up Mary! Wondefully done.
22 Jan 2008 12:16pm
Wow, it's huge! Well done!
22 Jan 2008 12:21pm
Superb macro shot!
Whoa that is HUGE, glad it's on the other side of the monitor LOL
22 Jan 2008 1:12pm
oh..thats a very fierce-lookin bee indeed. great capture.
22 Jan 2008 1:23pm
how did u get this close! i love this picture
22 Jan 2008 2:37pm
@Cris: Hi Cris, thanks for your visit and your kind comment. To answer your question, thankfully the wasp was more interested in the berries than in me so I was able to get right up close, sometimes though they did get annoyed with me and chase me around the garden but soon got fed up and went back to the berries lol :D
WONDERFUL!! What a view, when going through the pictures of my favorites, here I was simply urged to keep watching, a topper!! (I almost begin to love wasps when I see this - from now on I'll never kill one in my life, thank you MaryB)
22 Jan 2008 4:19pm
Excellent macro. Beautiful.
22 Jan 2008 4:34pm
Fantastic capture with great detail, Mary!
22 Jan 2008 4:56pm
You are a brave soul going in that close on the wasp in September (when they seem to get more grumpy I think ??). Anyway, hope it didn't sting you, you got a marvelous close-up.
22 Jan 2008 6:23pm
@Richard_Irwin: Thanks Richard, thankfully I didn't get stung but I did get chased around the garden a few times lol :D they were quite docile, thanks to all the elder berries they were consuming.
Wonderful macro Mary!
22 Jan 2008 7:26pm
hum! delicious, nice macro.
22 Jan 2008 7:39pm
Great macro!
22 Jan 2008 8:31pm
Great macro Mary.... My previous camera was same as urs but I was not able to take these kind of shots with it...
22 Jan 2008 9:06pm
wow,very lovely macro Mary!its interesting how the wasp's lower body seemed to be dislocated from the upper body!
This furry fellow is captured in such details that it looks almost attractive! A very good take!
23 Jan 2008 5:03am
Wow Mary this is a FANTASTIC shot!! really awesome...amazing macro.
23 Jan 2008 2:54pm
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