Photo of the Day: Bee vs. Bee-Keeper

Location: Bainbridge Island, WA

Camera/Lens Specifics: Canon 5D Mark III with Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM Lens and Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro Lens

Composites

Post: Adobe LR4 & PS6

After my adventures with bee-keeping, I spent an afternoon this fall harvesting 20lbs of fresh honey from my hives.  I could have collected more, but the honey they gather throughout the spring and summer becomes their food surplus for the cold fall and winter months ahead.  They were already pretty pissed, as one can tell.

Photo of the Day: The Bee-Keeper

Location: Bainbridge Island, WA

Camera/Lens Specifics: Canon 5D Mark III with Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM Lens

21mm, 1/6 sec at ƒ/22, ISO 100, tripod.

Post: Adobe LR4 & PS6

Photo of the Day: A Honeybee’s Day is Labor Day

Tireless in their pursuit, worker bees of the honeybee colony collect pollen during the summer season from sunrise to sundown.  The pollen is stored within sacks on their rear legs, and once full, the honeybee returns to the hive where she stashes it into cells made of wax.  With time, the pollen metamorphoses into honey and is kept for winter’s surplus.