Do You Enjoy Quiet Moments | Macro Bees

The wordpress challenge theme of the week is ‘Quiet Moments’. One thing that brings me pure joy and 9.99% of the time is in quiet moments, is when my camera is in my hands.

Lets continue this theme for the week from a beautiful silent Sunday shoot to share for Macro Monday.

When I feel big emotions, having my camera in my hand offers me a tangible way to get my attention, to also redirect my focus to something creative to allow my mind peace and serenity. I looked at my husband after we watched a movie Sunday after brunch, and said, take me for a drive. He knew exactly what I needed and why, I went and grabbed my camera and a couple lenses.

In all the images that I captured, this was the best connection. This little bee just hung out on the flower for a few minutes allowing me to get close and capture its true beauty!

When we first pulled over, we did for the various colours of flowers – pink, blue and yellow. As I began to photograph the blue flowers I was suddenly aware of the faint buzzing around me. I knelt silently, as I looked around and saw multiple bee’s flying amongst the wild flowers. Can you buy seeds for wild flowers like this along the side of the roads? They are all so unique and beautiful, weeds or not. Big gratitude to this bee for hanging out with me. I felt the trust and said thank you multiple times. I love photographing nature!

I will share more of my silent Sunday with you over the week. Its within these quiet moments I have even deeper gratitude for photography, so very much.

For my fellow photographers, these were shot with my Canon R6MII camera with my Canon RF 85mm f2.0 STM Macro lens. I closed down my aperture, to get more of the flower and/or bee in focus. I am so grateful I did, I am used to shooting wide open with my normal lenses and can nail the focus, when I stop down the aperture I can trust my macro shots will shine!