Exercising the macro lens
![[a couple of pretty blue flowers. WARNING! The linked image is HUGE!]](/~orc/flowers/blueflower2006.jpg)
When we got home from trainspotting yesterday, the bears went out into the front yard to play and I took the chance to pull out the macro lens and go bee-hunting. For some odd reason, the bees weren't out (you'd think that since they're Portland bees, they wouldn't even notice the rain, but, no) but that didn't stop the flowers. It was dark enough, even at 5:30pm, so that I had to fire the little built-in flash on the Pentax before I got any sort of shutter speed, and even then I only got a couple of good pictures before the pesky wind and rain started up again.