I took this photo of a bee on a flowering heather branch on the Elspeetse heath in the municipality of Nunspeet on the Veluwe. The morning when I was there it was cloudy except at the time when I took this photo, the sun just briefly shone through the clouds. I personally think the bee in the photo is a honeybee. You can still see the heather pollen on the bee. When I took this photo, the heaths on the Veluwe were blooming beautifully purple. To take this macro photo, I used an 85mm macro lens on my camera, otherwise I took this macro photo out of hand.
Welcome to my shop. My name is Gerard de Zwaan and I was born in 1983 in the Veluwe town of Harderwijk where I grew up and still live. I started photography in 2013. My first camera was a Nikon D3200 which I still own and is now as a.. Read more…