'Buzz' by Me

Buzz, a photo by PhotoPuddle on Flickr.

Happy weekend everyone. Hope you're all up to lots of fun stuff over the next two days. It appears to be birthday season here at the moment and we're celebrating two more birthdays with friends this weekend.

Here's a photo I took in July which has nothing to do with birthdays but it does remind me of sunnier and warmer days. Perhaps the weather this summer wasn't so rubbish after all.

'7 down, four letters.......' by harold.lloyd

7 down, four letters: back-end, rear, posterior; rhymes with 'cut'; often featured in harold.lloyd's bee photos, a photo by harold.lloyd on Flickr.

Isn't this photo simply beautiful? I wonder how much time it took to get such a perfect shot. I often find myself pointing my camera right up close to bees doing their work but I've never be able to achieve anything as stunning as this. As well as all the perfect details I really love the soft colours. You know what, as I look at this I really feel like there should be some classical music playing in the background. It's just that sort of photo.

'Hapbee go lucky^2' by Rachel*Nicole

Hapbee go lucky^2, originally uploaded by Rachel*Nicole.

It's funny, I'm really not a fan of insects and creepy crawley things but if I see a bee flying around some flowers I really want to photograph it. So much so I've been stood by flowers, pretty much being swarmed by bees just trying to get a perfect bee and flower shot. Some have turned out OK but none as pretty as this. It makes the bee look like such a beautiful thing. The light, colour and tones just work so well too. Really does feel like summer!