A Dragon in Sheep's Clothing» Photography http://www.dragonsheep.com Thoughts from a web designer, writer and cat lover. Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:04:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Bee http://www.dragonsheep.com/2009/04/18/bee/ http://www.dragonsheep.com/2009/04/18/bee/#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:33:56 +0000 Heidi http://www.dragonsheep.com/?p=543 As I was about to start my visit at the Norfolk Botanical Garden today, I discovered a bumble bee.

This bumble bee was hovering near some shrubs at the top of the steps leading down from the visitor center. He stood out, partly because of his size and partly because of his shiny butt. He would hover a couple of seconds, move slightly, hover again, zoom away, and come back. A couple of times another bee swooped in and they had a little buzz fight, which usually meant dive-bombing past me where I sat trying to take the perfect photograph.

I’ve learned that bumble bees are very hard to photograph. I think I did okay for my first try, though. The bee was 10-15 feet away when I took these.

 

Mr. Bee was still hovering in the area when I returned to the center, 2 1/2 hours later.

]]> http://www.dragonsheep.com/2009/04/18/bee/feed/ 0 Norfolk Botanical Garden http://www.dragonsheep.com/2009/04/18/norfolk-botanical-garden/ http://www.dragonsheep.com/2009/04/18/norfolk-botanical-garden/#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2009 22:24:57 +0000 Heidi http://www.dragonsheep.com/?p=542 I spent a very pleasant morning at the Norfolk Botanical Garden today, from around 9:30 until noon. Total of 283 photographs taken on my Canon Rebel XSi. Here’s the cream of the crop. (I think the Euphorbia flower, the first one, is my fave.)

Euphorbia

Encore azalea

Infrared

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Image at Flickr
Cat glass
Uploaded by stephmanuel1980 on 10 Jan 09, 7.28PM EST.

]]> http://www.dragonsheep.com/2009/02/22/glass-cat/feed/ 0 Brrr! http://www.dragonsheep.com/2009/02/17/brrr/ http://www.dragonsheep.com/2009/02/17/brrr/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:35:54 +0000 Heidi http://www.dragonsheep.com/?p=529 Image at BBC

In Liberec, in the Czech Republic, a volunteer clears snow from seats at the Jested Ski Jumping venue ahead of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. From BBC.co.uk>>

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