Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Honeybee landing on milkthistle02.jpg

Honeybee landing
An incredibly hard shot to get (I think I was shooting for about 2 1/2 hours), and hence one which looks quite amazing! With the 8 or so millimetres that are in focus at 150mm and f/11 there is not much room for error. This image, though perhaps not absolutely perfect, I feel is a worthy candidate for FP. I hindsight I really should have taken this image on a much smaller flower as there would have been less area for the bee to land on (allowing me just to leave it a a certain focus point). However at the time of year this was taken, there wasn't much else flowering around the place ;-)


 * Support Self Nom --Fir0002 05:50, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support - can I have your camera? Jorcoga  ( Hi! / Review )06:21, Wednesday, January 31 '07
 * Support original only. Slight motion blur, particularly on the legs, but otherwise a very good capture of a very difficult capture (and I should know. I've attempted similar things before with lesser results). The alternative is simply too motion blurred though so I Oppose that one. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 12:00, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Your effort is much appreciated. :-O | A ndonic O Talk · Sign Here 14:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. Exceptional shot! I don't like the alternative though --⁪froth T 23:35, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
 * SupportBeautiful shot, excellent composition, just the legs are a little blurry in the alternative. Nonetheless nice shot. Voshvoshka 01:35, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Support original. I like in the alt. version that you can see more of the plant, but the bee is blurry. The bokeh in the first one is very nice, depth of field, color contrast, detail are all FP quality. It would have been nice to have more of the plant in frame in the first one, but not enough for me to oppose. weak support.-Andrew c 18:27, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

--KFP (talk | contribs) 21:19, 8 February 2007 (UTC)