Yellow & maroon pansy.
I have no idea how a bee would actually see the flowers on my balcony, so apologies to any bees reading this. These images are really a result of me playing around with Photoshop this afternoon. If you’re curious, after editing and cropping the photo, on a new layer I added a radial gradient (white to transparent), set the blend mode to ‘hard mix’ and then erased the area around the centre so the original photo on the layer below came through. Highly stylised and probably not bee-like at all, other than being taken with my camera 1-2cm from the flower.
Purplish-blue pansy
I chose pansies and daisies for this post because the bees do seem to prefer these flowers.
Pink daisy.
And here’s a non-stylised bee, having a good old rummage in a camellia. Look at the size of that eye!
A real bee’s perspective. I wonder if they ever get pollen in their eyes?
These photos are square, which can only mean one thing: it’s another month of Becky’s Squares! For July, the theme is Perspective.
oh this is so clever. Brilliant idea for Square Perspectives, and I love to think this is how they see them 😀
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We need a ‘bee cam’!
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oh wouldn’t that be great 😀
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Very cool! Not too heavy, though, wouldn’t want to weigh down those indispensable wee workers. They are amazingly tireless.
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guess it won;t be long before they figure out a way to do it!
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ART! I love what you’ve done with the flowers. Would hang these on my walls if I had walls.
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Ooh, now there’s an idea! Thanks, Lisa.
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Fabulous! I shall definitely have to have a play!
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I did the daisy first and thought ‘hey that’s pretty cool’, so was surprised when the blue/purple pansy turned out not quite the same. If you do it, also tweak the gradient layer’s fill percent, I found that made a difference in the result. I also used the camera raw filter on the base layer to adjust the luminance of some colours, which also affected the result.
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How pretty are these? Fab playing, Karen! 🙂 🙂
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Oh, thank you Jo!
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Very bright and cheerful. I have been quite happy to see bees enjoying our winter flowers. Especially the citrus blossom.
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They are very active, aren’t they? I’m pleased to support them with my flowers, as the poor bees face a lot of challenges these days.
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That is quite creative.. great fun..
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Love the purplish-blue pansy 💜 very lovely indeed.
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Thanks Clare, that’s my favourite too.
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