A Bumblebee on a Yellow Flower Metal Print

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I was taking photos of this flower when the bee flew into my photo. Bees have become very much endangered by the use of various toxic chemicals. This one looks healthy. There's a video about the Van Fleet trail where this was taken at : https://www.facebook.com/FloridaTraveler1/.

I love to tell stories. About twenty years ago I had my first freelance travel article accepted by a magazine. Much to my surprise, the magazine expected photos along with words. I had not taken any during the preliminary work for my article. I drove back to the site and took the photos for the article with my little Olympus digital camera. The article was published with those very amateur photos. In time, I bought an Olympus OMD-EM5, a great camera for nature and travel photographers and discovered that I enjoyed telling stories with pictures more than I did with words. The last twenty year have been an incredibly exciting time as resources for photographers have exploded. I have been lucky enough to have some great teachers along the way...