Day 298: The Bees Knees

I got home this afternoon to about a million bees buzzing about the lavender bushes that line our driveway. Bees don't really bother me so I thought this was a great opportunity to give my lens adapter a workout using Belinda's Macro lens. I ended up taking 139 photos of bees and that made it very hard for me to choose one for today's post. I ended up choosing this one, which is very similar to many of the others.

It wasn't that easy to get a good photo of a bee, they don't tend to stay still for very long. But when I did capture a few that weren't too blurry the detail was pretty impressive. I like their hairy little legs, the veins in their wings and how soft and fluffy their bodies look.

Day 269: Expanding Capabilities

This little gem arrived in the mail today, it's a funky little adaptor that lets me us Nikon F mount lenses on my Nikon V1 camera. I'm now looking forward to actually using this with some of Belinda's lenses and might even look into buying some F mount lenses of my own.

It's quite a heavy little thing, and it's got all the contact points to bring power to the lens so it will auto focus. The local camera shops were asking a lot of money for one of these and they didn't actually carry them in stock either. By shopping online I saved close to 40% and had delivery within a week. I wonder how long it will be before retail outlets are a thing of the past?