The bees really enjoy this plant, though its bell shaped flowers make it hard for bees to get to the nectar and pollen. The flowers stay around for a long time, and eventually the bees will rob the nectar and pollen from the plant by cutting a hole in the side of the flower.
These photos are my posts for #longexposurephotography
| Lumix GH3, modified by LifePixel for Full Spectrum | |
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| Olympus MSC ED M. 60mm Macro lens | |
| None | |
| f/4.5 | |
| 1.6 sec | |
| 400 | |
| Full Spectrum (FS) | |
| 300 nanometers through 1200 nanometers | |
| North Georgia USA. |
This stem was at the end of its flower cycle and had quite a bit of weathering on it. Looks like many marks of big bumble bees holding onto the flower.
The stems are a purple color in the blacklight and go all the way to the petals where the stem ends.
One of the flowers has closed already but many more will follow and produce seeds if pollinated successfully.
You can really see the holes the bees make in the side of these flowers. Its mostly carpenter bees doing this and sometimes they do more damage to the flower where it will just fall off. Though luckily this one appeared to have survived.
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I take pictures with a special camera. Its a Mirrorless DSLR that has been modified by Life Pixel to see light in other wavelengths. This allows my camera to see light in the Infrared [IR] around 1300 NM wavelength, through the visual spectrum and into the Ultraviolet A and B wavelengths roughly into the 300 NM wavelength.
I carry many filters on me to make the photos you see in my blog, these filters screw on my lens and help me isolate certain wavelengths for certain scenes. These filters can be IR / UV pass-through filters to assist me get a natural photo taking out the UV and IR light. Or I may use a Infrared pass-through filter capture just IR light. I can do the same with UV light as well, though I need some better filters which they can cost a few hundred dollars for true Ultraviolet pass through filters. So for right now I have B + W 403 bandpass filters that still allow some IR light in, due to their cheaper material.
There are also exotic glasses made of sapphire and germanium I am open to working with to replace my silica glass hot mirror with a material that allows even longer wavelengths of infrared to enter my cameras sensor. Special sensors, lenses and filters of that material would be needed as well, so it would be a big project but one that may give some even more unique photography results.
Addresses below to help me buy better camera equipment and support me to travel to locations to do photo and video and overall great blogs in new places. I would be happy to list some of the contributors in my posts for donations that help me along the way.
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