Macro Photo Competition 2013 No 3
Results
Winning Photo

Judges Comment

Congratulations for this photo, it is not technically perfect, but it is very original, it's pretty rare to see so many bees drinking, the composition would have been a little better if you had removed the bee left but it is a very beautiful image nonetheless.

Photographers Comment

I shot this with a D7000 and 105mm Nikon. It was a very hot 40c summer day. I was walking past the Sir Adam Beck statue on University and Richmond St in Toronto, ON. A swarm of maybe 200 bees was busy drinking from the fountain at the statues base. I sprawled onto the fountain started shooting. Setting were. 1/160 at f3.5,iso 500. I didn't want to use a high ISO for a sharper image. F-stop is low but again I had no flash so I couldn't go higher and risk motion blur. Not a tech perfect picture but it does tell a story and I don't see many macros of multiple insects. Just the common one. I have adjusted the crop as suggested.