Pickeralweed (Pontederia cordata) and Bumblebee

Posted by Russ Devan (New Hanover, United States) on 27 July 2008 in Plant & Nature.

This was photographed at the edge of Sand Pond at Camp NoBeBoSco Boy Scout camp, near Blairstown, NJ. I photographed this without my usual circular polarizer and tripod, as I was out snapping candids of the boys in our troop during their adventures around camp and wasn't carrying that equipment with me at the time. I meant to return later and re-photograph these flowers so that the polarizer could darken the water in the background and saturate the purple in the flowers better. But, I didn't seem to get around to it. I think the bee makes the image anyway. Otherwise, it would be just another flower photo (and how many of THOSE have you seen???).

"The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both."
- Zen Buddhist Text

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