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Pistachio/Bee
Pistachio/Bee
GeneralE


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Collection: Plants
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: Oakland, California, USA
Date: Aug 1, 2008
Aperture: 6.30
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/320
Galleries: Floral
Date Uploaded: Aug 2, 2008

Viewed: 437
Comments: 11
Favorites: 0

 Flowering Pistachio blossom cluster with hovering honeybee. Partly backlit by afternoon sun high and to the right.

-Handheld, Shutter-priority mode
-Cloned-out stray flowers from neighboring twig and part of a leaf
-RGB Curve
-Resize
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5
-SaqveAs JPEG at quality 8/1- = 206kb

File:PistachBee_IMG_4354-DPC8.jpg

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 08/04/2008 08:39:39 AM
Awesome blooms! Love the little bee & his beezy wings a flapping!
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 08/03/2008 03:20:44 AM
Well captured, the bee is lovely.
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 08/02/2008 05:18:54 PM
HA ha. I thought that was sensor dust, GeneralE.
Seriously great capture. When do you harvest the produce?
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 08/02/2008 01:09:39 PM
I've never seen a pistachio tree or bush..

Pretty cool with the Bee as means he's pollinating and hopefully if he does his job there will be plenty of pistachio's...
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 08/02/2008 09:05:35 AM
Flowering Pistachio? Never heard of them! Beautiful blooms.
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 08/02/2008 07:56:06 AM
That bee really moves this image up a couple of notches for me.
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 08/02/2008 06:04:01 AM
The buzz is that we definitely like this one.
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 08/02/2008 05:48:28 AM
I can see his little wings beating; cool :-)
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 08/02/2008 12:24:03 AM
The colours are wonderful in this one. And the bee just adds to it. Great.
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 08/01/2008 10:00:56 PM
Oh my .. what a capture!! The color, the bee .. just the best!
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 08/01/2008 08:51:11 PM
These are awesome, and just LOOK at the bee, in mid air.
What a capture.....
Awesome.....
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