Blue-banded Bee

[Arun Acharjee]

The bright vivacious beauty of a blue-banded bee(Amegilla sp.) is quite hard to ignore. I tried a lot to capture them but their fickleness defeated me again and again. I found them mostly on little flowers- moving from one to another with a great rapidness. This image is of a female. Their sex can be understood by counting the blue rings on their abdomen- the males have five while the females have four. Wish you enjoy the naughty beauty.

EXIF Info:

Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Nikon 40mm f/2.8 macro
ISO: 250
Aperture: f/13
Shutter Speed: 1/250
Handheld, Edited, Cropped, Ring-flash fired

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[Dheerendra Singh]

Nice details.. beautiful composition. Thanks for sharing.

[Mrudul Godbole]

Liked the colours. Very striking blue and white bands. Nicely captured. Thanks for sharing.

[Arun Acharjee]

Nice details.. beautiful composition. Thanks for sharing.

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[Arun Acharjee]

Liked the colours. Very striking blue and white bands. Nicely captured. Thanks for sharing.

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[Sabyasachi Patra]

The bees can bend a lot and one can see from this image why it helps. The image can be slightly brighter. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Arun Acharjee]

The bees can bend a lot and one can see from this image why it helps. The image can be slightly brighter. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

Thanks Sabyasachi da for your advice. Actually, I am trying to accustom with my ring flash which is full manual. I have to take shots in manual mode where the exposure meter shows something and the image becomes another. A few shots I have lost because of high exposure too. Need some time to fix this.