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Biodiversity

by Jim Zablotny

Gallery: FloraPosted August 22, 2015128 views2 comments

Compass plants have 8 foot flower spikes adorned with sunflower-like flowers. These flowers are showing their age, but the insect life utilizing the pollen and nectar on these flowers is amazing.  When photographing these flowers, I only saw the anthophorid bee and was pleasantly surprised to see the rest of the insects during post-processing.  In North America, prairies contain most of the biodiversity with plant and insect diversity contributing the most species.k5 IIs 600mm f5.6 32mm extension, 1.4tc (1/250 sec at f9, ISO 400) Levels, Topaz Detail..............................Jim
 

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2 comments
Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on August 22, 2015 at 12:17 PM

I count 8 insects present. A good detailed picture of the working life of the compass plant. From a photography aspect, I see the old enigma of how to photograph an elongated plant. Here, you either have to crop the top or the bottom awkwardly. You reasonably chose the top. The detail and the lighting are top notch. 

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on August 22, 2015 at 8:34 PM

Quite the clean-up crew with all those tiny beetles. Sharp with great DOF, color, and light too..

I like the BG, good call on your choice of comp Jimdevil

 

Registered on July 24, 2008, 1201 Posts, 10758 Comments