Very sharp capture for a flying critter. Reminds me of a space capsule flying over an alien landscape (The bumblebee has landed).

Wonderful !!!!!!!!!!!!

Excellent sharp capture.!!!

Super shot auntie, well done on a great bit o' timing. I laughed at the title as the term "On the job" means something different in the UK. Put it this way, I expected to see two bees :D

He's a busy little guy. Really good capture. Looks like he posed for it.

Bravo! It works very much ,the little bee..... It will have many honey ( for us of course ) ! A beautiful red-pink colour chart

Wow! Well done Tara! It looks terrific against that colour!

Pat pat pat on the back back back 8=)) That's really a beautiful and well composited capture! And the bee is a little beauty!

Hmmm! I never got the bot on this one either Wonderful capture Tara

This is fantastic! I love the focus on the now famous bee. You should give him a name as he is the star of your much anticipated shot of a flying critter. What lens were you using?

Great work getting this shot, you even managed some prop blur! And what a gorgeous red background he gave you! Kudos!

:-) Way to go. He's a beaut! Two bees? Think you are one ahead of me...

The bee is beautiful and much beegger in zoom!! A lovely capture Tara and I can see why you like the pic.

Amazing capture Tara. God bless.

Yes I know what you mean about flying creatures and photography..... not my forte either, but I keep trying. You have inspired me to try and capture a shot of the bumblebees that visit my sweet pea bush (if it ever flowers this summer)!

Great capture Tara. better than I could have done!

Wow - this is a really GREAT capture, Tara! I can see why you're proud of this one! The bee is tack sharp, and the red flower backdrop really makes him (her?) stand out! Magnificent! I remember years ago in the camera club days, we went to Loose Park here in KC for some floral photos. I saw a big ol' bumblebee buzzing around.. I must have followed that bee around for 20 minutes - but finally got a decent shot as he hovered. I might have that shot posted here somewhere in my gallery... I'll have to look someday! LOL

Bill said "two bees?" Whaaaaa? If there's a second here, I didn't find him/her. (Ok, maybe he's referring to Ronnie's comment. Well I'm totally confused now, so I'm moving on.) As much as you may have wanted this to be an insect in flight shot, solely, it's still a tara closeup, because the bee is on the left side and it's overwhelmed by that radiant red background. So it's a bee in flight as seen through a massive burst of nature's red gowns. Huge red, it's really big! And part of the petals are lit, and there are stamens to balance out the bee. A burst of a shot, it slapped me the first time I saw it: Terrific job of choosing, cropping, whatever you do to get this in-your-face view. And I assume that getting a bee in flight is tough---not just because of in-motion shooting, but because bees are so small compared to animals, so you need patience and concentration. Another zeroing-in shot with real power. (An aside---zeroing-in comes, I assume, from the military, "ground zero" being dead-center of a target: So one rushes into ground zero when they zero-in. But your zeroing-in often exposes 'many' ground zeros, so I probably should say 92-ing in. Not a great aside, but I felt compelled...)