Small Things - Volume II: The Pollination of Beaufort County, Part 2

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Small Things - Volume II: The Pollination of Beaufort County, Part 2

Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 3:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage ( More Entries )

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Recently, I posted a pictorial on what is small to the eye, but large within the camera lens, which well expressed nature, adding a few examples of the whole 'Birds and the Bees' thing ... well, mostly Bees. This all occurred along Washington's waterfront, involving Water Lilies, Bees and Dragonflies. Here below are some of the remaining pictures to finish up this series.

Along Washington's waterfront, I am welcomed by the Community Gazebo in Washington's Festival Park on a Saturday morning in July: Above. Just a few hundred feet east of the gazebo, along the plank boardwalk bordering the Pamlico River, are these Water Lilies: Below. photos by Stan Deatherage Click images to expand.

These Water Lilies are the nectar troughs feeding Bees, Wasps, Dragonflies and more.

These nectar troughs open their blossoms to the visiting flying small things: Above and below. photos by Stan Deatherage Click images to expand.

Besides being a food source for water creatures, these Water Lilies are an outstanding resting place: for pools of water - above; for Dragonflies below. photos by Stan Deatherage Click images to expand.

This blossom has just opened, and now it soon will be accosted by the small flying things, and their insatiable hunger: Above. photos by Stan Deatherage Click images to expand.

These nectar troughs just keep giving up the bounty of their blossoms to the visiting flying small things: Above and below. photos by Stan Deatherage Click images to expand.

I shoot these shots with a telephoto lens, either a 300 mm or a 250 mm, so I am not close enough to the incessant sounds made continual by the constant hunger of these creatures in the season of their relatively short lives ... Bzzzzzz: Above. photos by Stan Deatherage Click images to expand.

All things considered, I will always have a soft place in my heart for the trestle and its trains: Above. photo by Stan Deatherage Click image to expand.

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Gene Scarborough said:

( November 9th, 2014 @ 7:16 am )

I shall bring some Bennett Wine for prayer / a good Long Island Ice Tea mix / you provide the tea(no party this time). We will see who can beat who taking pics of small stuff!!!

In a few weeks we will have plenty of monkeys in tress to see which party they belong to. I bet all varieties will be showing their tails without benefit of Ad Agencies to make them "just right" for the public.

The most important things are yet to be, my friend!!!

Stan Deatherage said:

( November 8th, 2014 @ 11:26 am )

We can talk about photography, get real warmed up, then we can beat on The Amateur, Numbskull (Lynn didn't like Stretched) Nancy, Hapless Harry Reid, and then Kay Hagan for voting for the simpleton for majority leader.

Gene Scarborough said:

( November 8th, 2014 @ 10:52 am )

This is like a group of technicians sharing their special knowledge in terms the average person does not care about. We must crack a bottle and talk face-to-face!

Stan Deatherage said:

( November 8th, 2014 @ 9:56 am )

This Gene.

My camera has all grades of automatic functions and I use almost none of them.

I shoot 99% of my shots manually, and I shoot about, 55% aperture priority and 45% shutter priority, and on top of that only about 25% light meter relevancy. In many cases, the light meter can fool you.

I mostly shoot for subject, but am only now considering different focus subjecting (kind of made that one up).

Gene Scarborough said:

( November 8th, 2014 @ 6:49 am )

Great pics. I so love my old macro lens by Sigma. It cost more than the 35MM Konica camera Wolf Camera of Atlanta sold me. While at Loris, I found a good Jewish businessman was married to Church Wolf's mother.

The camera was sold to me a a great price after Church carefully listened to what I needed---rather than might want. The choice was a aperture priority automatic control or speed priority. Since is was a total novice to good cameras, he suggested the aperture priority type. Now you can go both ways with a digital camera!

Few, outside of us, knows what the heck I am talking about, brother!

. . . and that is why I love your outlook on life and the great pics you take! I have so slide I took in Europe and England you will love to see with me. The series "Girls of Myrtle Beach" will get us both enjoying nature!!!!