This bee was obsessed with the top of my car, confusing it with a giant flower, perhaps? It wandered around up there long enough for me to take several photos from about 6 inches away. Unfortunately all I had was a 18-55 lens, as I was expecting to take pictures of houses that day, not insects. My husband, who was with me at the time, commented “I bet you wish you’d brought along your macro-lens.” He’s witty like that.
This was one of those situations where a lot of small birds in a parking lot decide to go on a sudden flight, flying around in a circle in a large group. The photos they come from were just a series of “press the button on auto-fire” snapshots, which I almost deleted, but I noticed that at 100% a few of the individual birds actually had some detail to them. Considering how small they were in the full-size photo, I felt I had to make a slight retractment of my usual derogratory comments about the Canon 20D kit lens. The quality of that lens is still sub-par in many ways, but I guess this shows how even the worst lens can sometimes catch detail you wouldn’t think it might. You won’t get prints out of such extreme cropping, of course, but hey, for a blog, it works fine. :D
The second picture is an example of the full image ratio from which I cropped the above full-size snippets.
