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Feeding Polinator

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A small solitary bee feeding on a little honey that I put on a flower. Tech Specs: Canon 1D Mark III (F13, 1/250, ISO 200) + a Canon MPE-65mm macro lens (@ 3x) + a diffused MT-24EX.
Image size
3888x2592px 1.6 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Shutter Speed
1/250 second
Aperture
F/13.0
Focal Length
65 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
May 14, 2014, 5:51:44 PM
Sensor Size
28mm
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:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Vision
:star::star::star-half::star-empty::star-empty: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Impact

Lovely work, first of all. Vivid us of colour, good angling, nice shallow focus, and great technique.
Now, into the nitty-gritty: I love the subject placement at the bottom right. Despite having the subject facing us, it still gives up a very point-of-view feeling, as if we're looking through the eyes of another bee (or other creature), watching the pollination takes place.
Showing the bee covered in pollen is always something I find exciting; nature can be its messiest when it's its most functional. Obviously, pollination is a miracle of nature, but here, up close, it looks to be anything but. This is entirely juxtaposed by the perfect clear droplet on the left of the image, which sits like a pearl, and even seems to IMPLY perfection on nature's part. The sharp contrast between the two seems to show both nature's clean beauty with its messy functionality as a sort of ying-yang equilibrium, always together and never separate combined like a marbled cake.
Wonderful work, I'd love to see a lot more like this.