Color macro photo. A bee collecting pollen from a flower. The bee is black and yellow, with some white bands on it's abdomen. It is dusted all over with yellow grains of pollen. The flower is purple, with many long thin petals, and a yellow center.

The days are getting shorter, the leaves are changing, and the sun increasingly gives way to clouds.  So long as there are flowers in bloom, though, the bees are going to be busy.

I caught a few of them in action the other day when I was at the Bellevue Botanical Garden, and they made me smile.  We’re headed into the Long Dark Wet months here in the Pacific Northwest and I need as much color as I can get now, to tide me over until spring.

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Gear: Nikon Z 7II, Nikon 105mm f2.8 VR Macro

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Color macro photo. A bee collecting pollen from a flower. The bee is black and yellow, with some white bands on it's abdomen. It is dusted all over with yellow grains of pollen. The flower is purple, with many long thin petals, and a yellow center.
Color macro photo. A purple flower, made of many long thin petals, growing from a pale green stalk, seen from the side. It is surrounded by similar flowers on all sides, which are softly out of focus. A large black and yellow bumble bee can be seen through the petals of the central flower, its black furry body dotted with grains of yellow pollen.
Color macro photo. A yellow and black bee, with some white bands on its abdomen, collecting pollen from clusters of small yellow flowers. The bee is dusted all over with grains of yellow pollen.