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A bumblebee works its way through some slender mountain mint:

I took this picture in a park in St. Louis, Missouri. It has a slight case of “green overdose,” but I like the bokeh and am particularly happy at how crisp the bee looks.
I think I’ve finally discovered the secret of good bee photography [...]

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So in case you missed all the shouting, Flickr now does video — although they’re calling it “long photos,” since you’re limited to uploading 90 second clips. Whether you call it short video, or long pictures, I think it’s worth tinkering around with — just to see what we can do with the format.

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As I mentioned in my last post, I bought an adapter so I could use my old (1979) Zuiko 50mm / f1.8 lens on my E-510. I’d heard that this combination was really bright, and thought that this would help in situations where I wanted to focus attention on a subject using a tight depth of field (i.e., subject in focus with everything in the foreground and background out of focus).

So I put “shorty” on the ‘510, went out in the yard, and practiced on some early (for Colorado) spring flowers…

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