We may be into autumn, but this worker bee is still out harvesting the yummy nectar from this bottlebrush tree.

The bee renders reasonably well when reduced to this size but isn't quite as sharp as I'd like in the full sized image. I'm not sure whether that's the result of motion blur or DOF. Probably the former; I thought ISO 200 would be sufficient in this light but admittedly this was in a shaded part of the garden, so I probably could have done with bumping it up to ISO 400.

Bees are not particularly cooperative models, though perhaps not quite as bad as certain cats.

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