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I spent a weekend in Tucson practicing macro photography. Since the resort I stayed at had lots of flowers, I decided to work on the 20-Step Challenge assignment. I was walking down the path, stop and decide to take 20-steps and shot whatever was at the end of the 20 steps. I capture this blooming prickly pear cactus and as I was taking shots of the cactus, I came across this busy bee hard at work in the flower. The last shot was unexpected as the bee popped its head out of the flower. Kodak Z712 IS Zoom Digital f/3.2, 1/320 sec, ISO-64, 15 mm.

One of those times having the camera ready at the right place at the right time  ;D

You managed to keep the whole cactus in focus fairly well with such a high aperture.

Thanks!  :) This one was done with my Kodak camera. The trip to the resort was just to relax and take pictures. I was not expecting to find the bee in the flower. I was just trying to do the assignment by taking the 20 steps and see what happens. Guess this was a kewl assignment after all.

I think I will try this assignment again but this time using my macro lens with Canon.

I'm not reading this book yet but it sounds interesting.  Definitely try the macro abilities of your new camera.  Here's one that I took just in our back yard - just amazes me what my new camera can do.  I have more photos of some macro shots in the 'Exposure' forum.

I am amazed with macro photography of the fine details you see in the small bugs that are on the plant. In this picture it looks like one of the antennas are in focus and the other is out of focus. Since the focus one is so long, it looks like the other one is out of focus, because it is point right in the direction of the camera lens. Nice shot.