(Photo: Greg Pierce Images, from our SunBreak Flickr photo pool)
Even a quick perusal of Greg Pierce’s photography reveals he likes to get in close, on his subject’s level. He captured this bee with a 50mm on his Canon EOS REBEL T1i. It looks almost embroidered on a floral middle-ground, which in turn pops out from a lightly blurred, fronded background. See the bee’s shadow? The freeze-frame quality of the shot is impressive considering it’s just 1/400 of a second, but that allowed an f/10 aperture, giving the flower’s bell a papery, yet sculptural impact.
Publisher & Editor in Chief [twitter] MvB moved to Seattle in 1987 to attend Seattle University, and his affection for things with Seattle in the name is as yet undiminished. Earlier incarnations have seen him wearing marketing hats at Seattle Opera and the San Francisco Examiner. He wrote for Seattlest from 2005-09, becoming arts editor and editor-in-chief before leaving to found The SunBreak in September 2009. View all posts by Michael van Baker
