By hylene74 on Skatehive
Greetings dear friends, welcome to my blog, I am again participating in the photo contest organized by @qurator, Qurator's Photo Quest | Red. The photo for this week's challenge was taken in the garden of a house where we were working on renovating the drinking water system. While the crew was working and the sun was shining brightly and intensely, the homeowner invited me, my boss, and my coworker inside. I was very impressed by her garden; there were various ornamental plants, including the Ixora. Actually, I didn’t want to photograph these small, deep-red flowers, but rather the bees that were flitting about incessantly and landing on those tiny buds. I took the shots from very close up in order to capture the sharpness of the bee, but its constant movement made it somewhat difficult. In seeking sharpness in the image of the bee, I found this week’s photography challenge. Ixora flowers do not bloom individually; they grow in clusters, are very eye-catching, and attract butterflies a