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Taken 19 January 2012 in Oradour Fanais France, 3 metres from my kitchen window, with a Nikon D300.

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At this time of the year, after the first frosts and just before they retire for the winter, bees and other insects can be less timid and shy and more bold or perhaps lethargic and so they allow you to get quite close before they decide that's near enough. This bee allowed me to get really close as she took nectar from the remaining verbenas in my garden.

Camera: NIKON D600. Hand-held.
Lens: 105mm macro
Aperture: f/11.0
ISO: 250
Exposure: 1/160

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The river Gartempe flows through the beautiful town of MONTMORILLON in the Vienne France.
About 35 minutes drive from my home.
Photo taken 11 February 2017.
Nikon D300
24-120 mm lens @ 31 mm
ƒ/11; 1/500, ISO 200
File ref: 20170211-DSC_9769
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The first substantial frost of the winter of 2010 in the Charente, France, adds its touch of transformational magic to these Cotoneaster berries. Nikon D300. 105 mm lens; Morning of Friday 26 November.
This image is an edited version of the original posted (which I have now deleted). Many thanks to dnaschr for his kind comment on the original and apologies that it has disappeared because the original was replaced with this cropped and edited version. - Errol.

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Nikon D300; Oradour Fanais, in the Charente, France; 28 May 2009; 14:38
Best viewed LARGE for detail (click here)

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