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I went home for Christmas for the first time in a few years. There was snow everywhere, and the birds and animals stood out against the brilliant white. Armed with my dad’s 80-200mm lens, I took hundreds of shots just from the back door of our house. Dad and I also walked on the towpath along the Ohio Canal and I managed to snap a few birds there.
Leaving the DAAP building one day in May, I heard a buzzing in the sculpture garden nearby. Bees were pollinating the freshly opened flowers, so I decided to whip out my camera to document this rite of Spring.
I must have underestimated the speed at which these little insects moved. I hardly had time to focus, let alone set up a shot and take it. It got to the point where I switched to AutoFocus and started shooting randomly into the flowers.
This method luckily produced this image. The bee was in focus, positioned dynamically in the shot, and the diagonal stems of the flowers provided an interesting line system from which the bee and his perch may diverge.
For a full-resolution image, see my ZenPhoto gallery
