Buzzzzz

Having some serious fun with a home made macro lens that gives some really cool skewing around the edge of the frame, and a DOF of about 1mm. I'll continue trying to improve on this technique, but for a first take I have to say I'm pretty stoked...

This bee was zipping around outside my house and I caught a couple shots of him on a flower. My lens has no focal adjustment, so you just have to move the camera around to grab a sharp snap, and the focal length is no more than an inch — so naturally it was quite a challenge to capture this little guy on the move. But I like the way that tiny DOF isolates certain parts of his body. Also, you can actually see the pollen grains stuck to his hair!