This is one of my favorite pictures. This caterpillar was crawling down some tree by the river and I was able to get some good pictures of it. Unfortunately, I only put them on the school's computer which accidentally had its memory cleared and this is the only one that I had saved onto a cd. Scary moments there, I'm telling ya.
As mentioned elsewhere on this blog, I somehow always end up taking pictures of bugs. I love taking macro pictures and they present themselves as good targets. This next pictures is of a massive bee I found buzzing around some flowers in our yard.
Getting close enough to actually snap a shot of it was somewhat challenging. It would fly off before I could get my little point and shoot camera to focus on it. I ended up guessing how far away it would be, focusing on a leaf or my hand that distance away, and then moving the camera around until it focused in the right spot.
Having a good eye is what many people value most in photography, but I believe that ingenuity is probably more important than a cultivated sense of where to place a subject or following the rules of how everything should be done. Find something that works and then do it before the chance is gone.
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