Old Dog Photography

Another shot from the Butterfly Pavilion — this time of some honeybees in an indoor display case:

You’ve probably seen them, those honeybee cases in botanical gardens and such. The honeybees get to build their hive indoors, with a tube leading outside to an area with flowers. Meanwhile visitors get to see them hard at work.

I discovered something on this visit — regardless of the temperature indoors, the honeybees seem to be far less active when it’s cold outside. Even though I had my ring flash, I think the bees’ slow motions helped me get a nice, sharp image here.

Unfortunately, you can also see a little bit of a smudge on the glass over on the left side of this shot.