This was last Wednesday, actually the day before the first day of Spring. I wanted to shoot these blooms on the trees across the street from where I work, and saw this bee buzzing around, made that my subject instead.

Nikon D7000, Nikkor 70-300 ED VR at 300mm. Shutter-priority at ISO 400.



1/250 @ f:20


1/250 @ f:25


1/1000 @ f:11


1/1000 @ f:13

The third image is a 1-to-1 crop of part of the frame, the rest are larger crops for composition.