Weekly Photo Challenge: Today


It’s 19:00 hours (7:00 pm) here in the UK and I’ve managed to get my photograph taken today easily enough. But did you guys in WordPress think about international time-zones. I received my email at 17:01 (5:01 pm)which meant that for someone in Moscow it would be 20:01 (8:01 pm), one minute past midnight in Perth, Western Australia – uh oh, they’ve already missed the deadline and hey so has Fiji because it was 02:01 there.

Anyway here’s my photograph, taken in my back garden with a little Point and Shoot camera, ideal for this situation, instead of using my DSLR. There’s not really much to say about it.  The sun was shining, as you can see, the bee has settled on the leaf, it’s not aggressive because it let me get the camera no more than about 3inches away from it, in fact you could almost say it was sunbathing.

That’s it from me, but if you weren’t happy with the deadline for taking the photograph leave a comment.

Update: Thanks to Steve Ransome for correcting me. This isn’t a bee, it’s a Hoverfly called Eristalis pertinax.

Steve has a great collection of wildlife photographs on Flickr. Check out his photostream

The Eristalis pertinax is a European hoverfly, also known as the drone fly. Like Eristalis tenax, the larva of E. pertinax is a rat-tailed maggot and lives in drainage ditches, pools around manure piles, sewage, and similar places containing water badly polluted with organic matter.

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