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The Bees Knees -- Canon 5D + M42 SMC MACRO-TAKUMAR 1:4/100
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 1:06 am    Post subject: The Bees Knees -- Canon 5D + M42 SMC MACRO-TAKUMAR 1:4/100 Reply with quote

Laughing You think I'm kidding?! Laughing ("The Bees Knees" is slang from someplace, means "The Best"; you have heard before?)



PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 2:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry, it's a phrase/idiom not a slang word as in "that's sick".
But yeah it's good. Smile


PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 3:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It refers to the collection of pollen in sacs on the bee's knees. The pollen is the bounty of their hard work and they take it back to the hive. I didn't see the "bee's knees having pollen in your shot. Here is one of mine from past weekend - this bee has been working hard; check out his knees.



PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 5:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great bee shots guys! Those put the mf in mflenses! Wait, that didn't sound right...


PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 5:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Never quite understood the origin of that idiom until now. Here's my contribution, as seen with an EL-Nikkor 50/2.8:

Pollen pants by scepticswe, on Flickr


PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My shot doesn't have the knees, but thought I'd include it too.
Leica R 28 Elmarit & A7r


PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 2:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

02 June 2014 .... Tamron SP 90mm (52BB)



PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice shots everybody.


PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tamron 90/2.5, this guy had been taking care of business, as evidenced by his knees



PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Definitely good knees.


PostPosted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Amazing photos folks! Thanks for sharing! Keep 'em coming!

Lightshow wrote:
Sorry, it's a phrase/idiom not a slang word as in "that's sick".
But yeah it's good. Smile


Oxford Dictionaries has "slang expression(s)":

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The phrase was first recorded in the late 18th century, when it was used to mean 'something very small and insignificant'. Its current meaning dates from the 1920s, at which time a whole collection of American slang expressions were coined with the meaning 'an outstanding person or thing'. Examples included the flea's eyebrows, the canary's tusks, and one that still survives - the cat's whiskers. The switch in meaning for the bee's knees probably emerged because it was so similar in structure and pattern to these other phrases.


woodrim wrote:
It refers to the collection of pollen in sacs on the bee's knees. The pollen is the bounty of their hard work and they take it back to the hive. I didn't see the "bee's knees having pollen in your shot. Here is one of mine from past weekend - this bee has been working hard; check out his knees.


The amount of pollen does not directly correspond to the amount of work to collect it. Wink


PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

as a non-native speaker I just thought that "bee's knees" sounds just like "business"


PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 3:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Loading in progress......



Sony A57 ... Tamron SP 35-80mm (01A) with Sony VCLM3358 (3.3 diopter)


PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 1:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great work guys!


PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kds315* wrote:
Great work guys!


Yup, real good.


PostPosted: Fri Sep 12, 2014 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Found one too...



PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 3:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bump.

Lovely pictures, all! Here's one of my own favorites:






Also, for what it's worth... I know it's typical vernacular to refer to critters (insects and animals) as "he". But, I believe European honey bee workers - the ones we see out gathering pollen - are actually female. Smile


PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 3:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Leitz Elmarit 90/2.8:



PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Taken with a Voigtlander 90mm f3.5 on Canon EOS 5DSR. Cropped slightly.



PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 8:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So cute photos!! Always loved any kind of bees!!

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Black Wood Bee or Carpenter Bee:





and this is how different bees see, compared to us humans (left human vision, middle reflected UV, right simulated bee vision), they cannot see red, but see UV:



PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 9:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Carpenter bee with GXR-M and CV Heliar 75/2.5:



PostPosted: Wed Jun 03, 2020 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A nice and highly instructive thread! Laugh 1


PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 3:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 8:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Blazer0ne wrote:
Not a Takumar.


Nevertheless a very nice picture!
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 04, 2020 11:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

kenetik wrote:
his knees


Her knees. Males don't forage. They tend to lounge around and drink honey in the hive.