This bee was photographed in City Park, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. The bee was quite large and looked beautiful on the orange flowers.
I do not recall the camera or exact date of the photograph unfortunately. It was sometime before March 2012 when I uploaded the photograph to Flickr—most likely during a work trip in late 2011.
Those bees sure are fidgety little fellows when you’re trying to capture a good photograph. Photograph taken on Nikon D60.
A giant golden bee sitting on top of a building in Melbourne. I don’t know why. But it looks good against the blue sky. Photograph taken on Nikon D60.
To this day—it doesn’t matter when you read this—this photograph remains as one of my favourite photographs. I was sitting on my own front deck stairs with my Canon SLR—which I’m still convinced was an AE-1—when I noticed a bee on the wheelie bin beside me. The bee appeared to be struggling.
As my eye sight hasn’t been the best up close for a few years now, I used the camera’s telescopic lens to see the bee in greater detail.
The bee had an ant on his leg and the ant refused to let go. I still don’t know how or why, but I decided to try and gently separate bee from ant. I did just that without killing either animal. Right after I captured this photograph to film forever.
