I don’t know about you but I’m not really a fan of insect pictures.  Why is that I hear you ask?  Well firstly they are really hard to get, those little dudes don’t stand still and getting them in focus is a total bitch.  You stand there like an idiot, the “bug” moves to the right point and you focus, and he’s gone!  And there is nothing worse than an out of focus insect – horrible.

Then there is the subject matter, have you seen insects blown up big in a picture?  They are major disgusting, all hair and eyes <insert you own great joke here about hot girls walking into a Hell’s Angels bar…>.  Bottom line is there is nothing worse than an in focus insect – horrible.

So what the heck did I post my bee picture below for?

Well here’s the thing.  I don’t have any pictures in my back log that I like.  Work right now is very very busy – I can’t tell you why as it’s all top secret and I’d have to kill you etc., so when I do get some time off I’m too exhausted to actually go out with the camera.

So I had this idea.  If I walk around with my camera everywhere I go, I’m bound to see something interesting that I can shoot.  Guess what?  I don’t see anything!  Either all the fun stuff is happening around the corner or I live in the most boring city in North America (quite possible by the way).

Anyway (I’m starting to ramble), I walked over to one of our big cafeteria’s this afternoon to get some lunch and walked past these – I’m gonna call them flowers as there was no sign telling me what they are (they look daisy’ish to me), and I thought, ooooh purple flowers.  I grabbed the camera and started shooting.

Then along comes this bee and I go, ooooh bee, and start shooting that.  When I get back to my desk I looked at the images and I thought this one looked quite nice (for a dirty great big insect anyway).  The quite nice bit is the purple flower, the ooooh that’s the interesting bit is supposed to be the bee.

Trust me when I say this is a better picture than the 120 I have in my back log hence it gets posted tonight.  Hope you don’t get creeped out by the scary insect.

Master Chief’s sweet tooth got him in trouble today, and Cater wouldn’t help him out!