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Bombus hypnorum visiting an Iris pseudacorus
Hand held. Two images manually aligned and focus stacked.


Bombus sp. Tripod. Carefully removed the petals with a pair of scissors to get a better view of the bumblebees face. Careful to not awaken this sleepy little one . This was taken in my own garden so it was okay to cut the petals. I removed some vignetting from this image as I used a Raynox DCR 250 attached to my Sigma 150 macro lens. At lower magnifications there is some serious vignetting with this combination on an APS-C sensor as it's not really designed for this use, but it goes away quickly at higher magnifications as in the first image.


Bombus lucorum Tripod, removed vignetting here as well.


Bombus lucorum Tripod