The allure of purple passion, v. 2.0

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It was spring this year that I had the opportunity to shoot bees on purple passion flowers at Zilker Botanical Gardens here in Austin, but this year we have our own Purple Passion Flowers and the bees were all over them this afternoon.  Unfortunately, I couldn't stand more than about 5 minutes of shooting...the mosquitoes were THICK!

Captured with a Canon 30D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens and this DIY Ring-Flash

ISO 100, 1/200th, f/9, 580EX on Manual 1/4th pwr

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Thanks for looking,
Roy

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Your lighting is spot on Roy.  The ring light really puts out a very nice even light.  The first image really rocks!