Bees don’t care how close you get, as long as they get what they want, so I leaned into this one pretty closely. (This was a macro lens; there was no zoom lens here to give me safe distance.) The sharpness of the bee (especially her eyes) and the part of the flower she’s working on makes me really happy. Look at the pollen sac on her hind leg! Really, it looks like she’s coated in pollen all over, even the ridges in her abdomen.

September 5, 2016. Nikon D7100 (DX sensor), 105mm Nikon macro lens (35mm equivalent: 155mm), f/13, 1/180, ISO 800.