It was an useasonably warm October day, and two honeybees were working over what few small blooms remained alive on the butterfly bush.There was some nice light,so I popped on the Tamron 90mm to try and get a sort of seasonal bee photo...an autumn-type of bee photo if you will. What is so cool to me is how you can see the bee's left wingtip blowing in the breeze...it has a tiny bit of motion blur.
At this late season, the bees are very slow-moving and allow you to get really,really close to them,and they are kind of sad too,since they have the most meager food supplies now,and they work each tiny,tiny blossom fully before moving on to the next one. As you can see, many of the purple blossoms are dead and brown this time of year,and the live purple blossoms are in the minority. I got to photograph this particular bee for about ten frames. It was a rather large bee,and had a hole in the left wing,and and a torn right wing tip. Wind gusts made focusing a challenge,and prompted me to select a shutter speed of 1/350 second.