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Identify Yourself

May 26, 2017 by Greg Molyneux

Macro photo of a carpenter bee collecting wisteria pollen.

My brain gets the best of me. Often I wrap myself sideways in details that stand meaningless to most. Mired in Minutia: A Greg Molyneux Memoir. Case in point, I present this photograph. I’ve been scrutinizing Google images for days, sweating over proper bee identification. Is it a bumblebee? A carpenter bee? A rusty patched […]

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Beeswax, are you minding it?

August 20, 2014 by Greg Molyneux

In this macro photograph a carpenter bee is captured from behind as it pollinates a quick fire hydrangea, basking in golden hour light.

This shot is a holdover from this past Sunday. I spent a good half hour stalking my quick fire hydrangea as it lay awash in rich golden light and carpenter bees. Despite the abundance of airborne insects doing their pollinating thing it what seemed like fast forward, I couldn’t get a single carpenter bee to […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 100mm carpenter bee flowers insects macro pollinators quick fire hydrangea

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Photos from the archives

HDR photograph taken at Stafford Forge Wildlife Management Area featuring a fiery sunset offset by a few blowing blades of golden marsh grass in the foreground. The grasses look touched by sunlight.
An HDR photograph taken of the salt marsh on the south side of Great Bay Boulevard during golden hour.
A low key HDR sunset photograph overlooking the tidal overflow of a lagoon flowing through a salt marsh.
An HDR photograph taken at sunset on Christmas Day overlooking the glowing embers of the south marsh from Cedar Run Dock Road.
High key photograph of a Washington DC cherry blossom. The fresh blossoms were bathing in a rich golden light just before the sun began to set over the Tidal Basin.

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